Books/Good Reading on Sugar Cane/Distilling

[andrewG]

Heya,
I really want to study more about the sugar cane plant. Any suggestions on what books to look for in the library? Also, if anyone know...how do you become a master distiller/blender? (Are they even the same thing??) Plus, does anyone know any good books on rum distilling?

Thanks!!
Cheers.

[RonJames]

Rum by David Bloom is a good book, and a great coffee table book. I don't think there is a lot about sugar cane in it...but it gives you a lot of good info for a cheap price.cheers.gif

[RobertBurr]

Rum by David Bloom is a good book, and a great coffee table book. I don't think there is a lot about sugar cane in it...but it gives you a lot of good info for a cheap price.cheers.gif

search Amazon for the following about sugar cane:

From Cane to Sugar (Start to Finish) by Jill Braithwaite; Sugar Cane Cultivation and Management by H. Bakker; Raising Cane in the 'Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida by Gail M. Hollander; Cane Sugar Handbook: A Manual for Cane Sugar Manufacturers and Their Chemists by James C. P. Chen and Chung Chi Chou; The Sugar Cane Industry: An Historical Geography from its Origins to 1914 (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography) by J. H. Galloway; The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860 by Richard Follett; The American Cane Mill: A History of the Machines, the Manufacturers, Sugar Cane and Sorghum by Don Howard Dean; Handbook of Cane Sugar Engineering by E. Hugot

[andrewG]

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Thanks for the list.
I got some reading to do.