From the 1750s on sugar transformed the way Europeans ate. Chefs who served the wealthy began to divide meals up. Where sugar had previously been either used as a decoration...or as a spice to flavor all course, now it was removed from recipes for meat, fish and vegetables and given its own place -- desserts. Desserts as the extremely sweet end to the meal was invented because so much sugar was available. But the wealthy were not the only ones whose meals were changing. Sugar became a food, a necessity, and the foundation of the diet for England's poorest workers.
Sugar Changed the World by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos

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