Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America.(Reviews)(Book Review) From: Journal of Social History | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: Matt, Susan | COPYRIGHT 2004 Journal of Social History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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 carrie...