"Candy: It pulls, stretches, bubbles, hardens, crunches, and melts--and the world consumes nearly 7 billion tons of it every year. Loved by kids and savored by adults, candy is more than just a treat; it's an industry that has evolved from a handmade operation to high-tech mass production. Modern Marvels follows the progression of raw goods to candy at Hershey's and See's Candy factories, Schimpff's Confectionary, Jelly Belly, and beyond." "Sugar: The science of sweet comes alive in this profile of the multibillion dollar sugar industry, from the early days of Caribbean sugar plantations to today's worldwide sugar overload. Modern Marvels reveals sugar at its most raw by taking an extensive tour of a cane sugar plantation on Maui, Hawaii, where it examines the technology behind all of the permutations and many uses of sugar, from candies to pipe tobacco and more."

"Go behind the nuts and bolts of the history's most inspired technological breakthroughs with Modern Marvels."--Container.