Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… Books. With Notes (London: Dodsley, 1764), p. 3; book I, ll. 1-6. As sugar became ever more affordable in Britain, it played an important role in what Clare Midgley has called ‘new rituals of sociability’ in the eighteenth-century British … from Asia, later locally produced in Britain, was accompanied by the importation of tea, in which the East India Company played a decisive role. 5 Sugar became ‘the inseparable companion of tea’, 6 while pastries and other sweets, likewise … on the abolitionists' side, there was yet another, in which women, who decided on their family's consumption of food, played a considerable role: the so-called Anti-Saccharite campaign, which began to take off in the 1780s and gained …
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