The Sugar Files

Don't let the name—or bittersweet rootsy flavor—freak you out. These sweets are delicious

Sugar is a many splendored thing—here’s your global tour of the essential sweet stuff

Spiritual, physical, and otherwise. For Coconut Rob in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, this tropical grass is a sweet miracle

Enter the croquembouche, the ultimate party dessert

For the author of The Case Against Sugar, it’s not just a public health menace—it’s an invasive species for our diets

Totally edible, but too pretty to eat

It all began with chlorine and coal tar

And it’s better than both

What happens when mad science meets good housekeeping? The apotheosis of 1800s food ingenuity

And what came before it? For one, eels baked in marzipan