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In This Newsletter: Golden Crystal Turbinado Sugar Now Available in the Big Container! Tasting Notes & Why We Source Sugar | |
Golden Crystal Turbinado Sugar is now available in our best-value big containers! It's an exceptionally crunchy sweet sensation from Barbados, a product of tropical sunlight, heavy rainfall and coral-rich soils. Located on the same latitude as Papua New Guinea, where sugarcane is native to, Barbados has the perfect growing conditions for sugar: an average of 12 hours of sunlight every day, fed on fresh rainfall that's filtered by the island's limestone coral composition. | |
Each crunchy gem is sweet and clear like floral spring honey. The golden color is a sign of minimal refinement of the sugarcane: retaining more of the original cane molasses results in more diverse flavors beyond just sweetness. Golden Crystal’s textured bite is perfect for topping baked goods, cocktail rims, or our summertime no-cook breakfast of yogurt and fruit. | | As we continue to source unique flavors from smallholder farmers all over the world, sugars are an important category to include in our mission toward reinstating equity and supporting food sustainability. The mass production of sugar to match growing demand historically involved enslaved labor and profit-driven cruelty. Barbados was the first Caribbean island to produce sugar, and Golden Crystal represents the last remaining Caribbean coral-island sugar in production. “The history of sugar is intertwined with the history of capitalism, the origins of wage labor, the beginning of industrial agriculture and the invention of the very first ultra-processed foods, cheap and unhealthy calories meant to fill the bellies of poor people in the global north, funded by the forced labor of enslaved people,” says Ethan. “By engaging with its complex past and by working hard to build new supply chains and new markets for carefully chosen, traditional and absolutely delicious sugars, we hope to contribute to a process of redefining an ingredient we've come to take for granted.” This sugar serves as a memorial to the fraught history of sugar in Barbados and the people who created this uniquely delicious ingredient. | | Here's a tip: Want to share smaller jars of Golden Crystal and its story with others? Our "secret" is that you can find our standard spice jar size available through our Bundle Builder. Just type "sugar" into the Bundle Builder search box to see our sweet options! Add any 6 spices (or sugars) to your custom spice bundle for free shipping. | | | | |
