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Article: Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America.(Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2004
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Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America. By Wendy A. Woloson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xii plus 277 pp. $46.00).
Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America is an examination of how the meaning of sugar and confections changed over the course of the nineteenth century. Refined sugar, ice cream, bonbons, and other sweet delicacies were once so expensive that they carried with them connotations of luxury and conferred prestige on those elites who could afford to consume them. They were a clear signal of male economic power and privilege. As sugar, ice, and ...
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