What evidence from the passage support the inference that sugar was expensive and not available to everyone

When knowledge of sugar was just beginning to spread from India, from Persia, from Greece, from the great school of Jundi Shapur, cooks working for the wealthiest people treated it as a spice, blending it with other tastes. They continued to do that for another thousand years.

Explanation:

In this excerpt, we can see that the sugar was expensive and hard to get, as only the wealthiest people could afford it and hire cooks to blend it with other tastes.

Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science is a novel first published in 2010 and written by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos. The authors discover the complete history of sugar and its importance in India, Europe, and the Americas.

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”

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