A French Cook's Sugar Mix-Up Became Europe's Deadliest Poison
Early Modern Europe

A French Cook's Sugar Mix-Up Became Europe's Deadliest Poison

A kitchen assistant's slip in 1675 would eventually kill more people than the Black Death.

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