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Free packet of sugar for stepping in the door. You dont seem particularly grateful. So, were thinking about how we are affected by the past. To do what i had just done, handing out a quarter cup of sugar to people who are not my close personal friends, to do that, hand out a quarter cups worth of sugar, this was the middle ages in europe. That is an incredibly extravagant gift. Sugar, in the 1300s, was a rare and expensive good. It was treated as medicine. It was prized and available only to the richest of the rich in western europe. To hand out the small amount i gave you would have been seen...

And expensive good. It was medicine. It was prized and available only to the richest of the rich in western europe. To hand up the small amount i gave you would have been seen as an extravagant thing. Now, it is so much a part of our diets. Into a gas station and grab a handful and take it with you. I pay for it. Is so cheap and common, it is hard to avoid it. Is there anyone who has had to give it up for dietary r easons . How easy was it . Terrible. Prof. Paulett right, its hard. Its in medicine and pills. How this came to be how it went a rare and expensive good to a thing that is so common...

I wanted to hand this out as a lesson, thinking about how were still connected to the past. There are people i dont, they are not my close personal friends, i like you all very much, but to do that, to hand out a quarter cups worth of sugar, this was the middle ages in europe. It was extravagant. Sugar, in the 1300s, was a rare and expensive good. It was medicine. It was prized and available only to the richest of the rich in western europe. To hand up the small amount i gave you would have been seen as an extravagant thing. Now, it is so much a part of our diets. You can go into a gas station...

For those of you in the east and central time zones 7488201 in the mountain and pacific and if you cant get through on the phone lines and want to make a comment. Facebook. Com you will see right youll see right there at the top of some video you can go ahead and post a comment right underneath it and also email booktv at cspan. Org. You can make a comment there as well and finally you can also text a message if you would like to. This isnt for calling. 20,271,791,684 and if you would just include the first name and your town so we can know that much about you before we get started. David mara...

This world where we lock people up for now 14 years in Guantanamo Bay with no charge, no trial, no process, no habeas ofpus, a legal black hole the equivalent of outer space where we dont know what is going on there. It is simply wrong. It has got to be closed. Amy and the British Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn talks about the largest exodus of refugees since world war ii. We are not going to secure the worlds future with razor wire and electronic surveillance of borders. Youre my secure the worlds future if you do with the desperate levels of inequality in the world and deal with the disproportio...