<p>I heard a fascinating lecture about sugar a few months ago. Did you know Columbus brought sugar cane to the Caribbean on his second voyage? His mother had a sugarcane plantation in Madiera and he realized that the conditions would be right. The rest is sad, greedy, turbulent history. When Napoleon gave up on Haiti and it became independent, Europe started heading back to the sugar beet instead of sugar cane. They are both sucrose and nearly all commercial sugar is a mix of both. Dominos is labelled 100% cane sugar. </p>