“I hope I shall before long have the pleasure of enrolling you a member of the Anti-saccharine Society, which I have had the happiness to organise, and which is daily extending its numbers. […] I purpose giving a festival, to which I shall invite all that is respectable and intelligent in this part of the country, and in which I intend to demonstrate practically, that a very elegant and luxurious entertainment may be prepared without employing a single particle of that abominable ingredient, and theoretically, that the use of sugar is economically superfluous, physically pernicious, morally atrocious, and politically abominable.”
Bed Intruder Panda are a Chinese–Paraguayan duo who have been touring internationally since 2007 but are only now becoming known in the U.S. They were recently interviewed on NPR’s “All Songs Considered.”
