I found Pollen's story of his kid's first encounter with sugar very telling. Taubes also talks first hand of his kids' love of it. No wonder so many here have trouble staying away from sugar and why those strong lines of demarcation (No Sugar, No Starch) are so effective.

I'm not very far into the new book and it will be a week or so before I can concentrate on it, so I don't know if Taubes mentions this, but another anecdote about sugar that I feel is telling:

Apparently slaves working on sugar plantations were given just enough sugar to get and keep them addicted, making running away a more difficult proposition.

It's time scientists confirm what slave holders knew centuries ago: Sugar is Addictive.