Refined Tastes
Subtitle: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 26, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780801868764
Subjects: Consumer issues; Cultural studies; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; Science/Mathematics; Sugar Technology; Technology; Cooking / Wine; United States - 19th Century; USA; Sugar; Courses & Dishes - Desserts; Europe - General; History / United States / General; Food Science; Confectionery; History
First sentence: The familiar nineteenth-century phrase "Home Sweet Home" nostalgically suggests a time of domestic bliss when innocence and harmony were embroidered into the fabric of family life.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.