Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… this new substance and the rituals surrounding it. 7 Peter Motteux's ‘ Poem upon Tea ‘ (1712) envisions a community of classical gods and goddesses, a kind of Olympic tea-table, where Gods are refreshed by this new ‘nectar’, whose … the immediate circle of the family, who participated in the drinking of tea. It could also be at the centre of middle-class families' social entertaining in their home, involving a circle of visitors, who were served tea (with sugar) and …
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