Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… and more common in the eighteenth century. It was linked to the sociable consumption of tea, sweet pastries, rum, and punch. As a popular consumer item, West Indian sugar, which was produced with slave labour, became the target of a … and malicious gossip. Sugar was also part of a male sociable ritual, the consumption (and sometimes also preparation) of punch , a drink made up from sugar, spices, rum, fruit, and water. 10 4 . Clare Midgley, Feminism and Empire: Women … Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World (London: Reaktion, 2015), p. 87. 10 . Karen Harvey, ‘Barbarity in a Teacup? Punch, Domesticity and Gender in the Eighteenth Century‘, Journal of Design History (vol. 21, no. 3, 2008), p. 205-221. …
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