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Refined tastes : sugar, confectionery, and consumers in nineteenth-century America /
"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:...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
©2002.
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| Series: | Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ;
ser. 120, no. 1. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.