Refined tastes: sugar, confectionery, and consumers in nineteenth-century America
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Main Author: Woloson, Wendy A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press ©2002
Series:Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ser. 120, no. 1
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-262) and index
Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction : Refining tastes -- Sugarcoating history : the rise of sweets -- Sweet youth : children and candy -- Cold comforts : ice cream -- Sinfully sweet : chocolates and bonbons -- Icing on the cake : ornamental sugar work -- Home sweet home : domesticated sugar -- Conclusion : Sweet surrender -- Postscript : Sweet and low down
"American consumers today regard sugar as a mundane and sometimes even troublesome substance linked to hyperactivity in children and other health concerns. Yet two hundred years ago American consumers treasured sugar as a rare commodity and consumed it only in small amounts. In Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America, Wendy A. Woloson demonstrates how the cultural role of sugar changed from being a precious luxury good to a ubiquitous necessity. Sugar became a social marker that established and reinforced class and gender differences."--Jacket
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 277 pages)
ISBN:0801868769
0801877180
9780801868764
9780801877186

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