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Humans have always been delighted by sweetness, but its sticky hold on us is taking its toll. In this three part series for The Compass, Lainy Malkani explores how sugar forged the modern world, from its role in the slave trade and the European colonization of the Americas, to the consequences of our dependency on it today. For some countries, their past is built on it; for others, their futures depend on it. Across three continents – in Britain, the USA and Thailand, Lainy, the descendent of indentured Indian labourers in the sugar plantations of Guyana, digs into the past, present and future of sugar.