Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America

by Wendy A. Woloson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801868769
• ISBN13: 9780801868764
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher