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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