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Toasting glass [ Food & Drink ]
… glassmaking industry strode on, offering ever more specialized types of glass to an increasing range of individuals, clubs and political organizations. Both resistant and elegant, new ranges of glasses were produced for the ritual of toasting. Special toastmaster glasses and custom-made glassware become part of clubs’ identity-sustaining paraphernalia. Glasses also served to express individuals’ tastes and social standing, or … of American Trade and Taste (New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 364-384. Purpose-made glasses for clubs Gentlemen’s clubs had their specific drinking rituals and their own toasts; some had utensils made to order. The …
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Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee houses.’ ( The Spectator n° 10 , 12 March 1711) Addison’s and Steele’s … debates about coffeehouse sociability has led some commentators to believe that coffeehouses were ultimately replaced by clubs as the eighteenth century wore on. In fact, the history of clubs and coffeehouses remained intertwined throughout the period. From the first meetings of the Rota Club in the 1650s …
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Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
… both in domestic and non-domestic spaces. The extant bowls which suggest public places of sociability – taverns , clubs and associations – were surely matched by many bowls of different styles designed for the home. Certainly, other …
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