Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… work was hard and dangerous: sugar cane was grown, cut, and ground, then the juice was boiled and potted at the boiling house in long shifts that went into or even through the night. One important document for the eighteenth-century … regular British diet (Mintz 117-118). The domestic, woman-dominated tea-table , which became a counterpoint to the male coffee-house, is a cultural icon that resonates in several ways. A fair number of poems and essays pay tribute to this new …
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