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Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
… Whereas ale, wine and spirits were served in glass, stoneware and rougher delftwares, and the refined hot drinks tea , coffee and chocolate were consumed in porcelain and fine earthenware, punch was served in a bowl which blended the … produced in many different sizes also made them accessible to groups small and large. 2 . Karen Harvey, ‘Barbarity in a tea-cup? Punch, domesticity and gender in the eighteenth century’, Journal of Design History, (vol. 21, no. 3, 2008), p. … A lone drinker partaking of punch directly from the vessel would be uncouth and impolite (Harvey, ‘Barbarity in a tea-cup?’, 212). The decoration of the many thousands of extant bowls shows a clear link between bowls and celebration. …
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Toasting-glasses of the Kit-Cat Club, 1703 (2) [ Practices ]
… ON LADY HYDE IN CHILD-BED. Hyde, though in agonies, her graces keeps, A thousand charms the nymph's complaints adorn; In tears of dew so mild Aurora weeps, But her bright offspring is the cheerful Morn. LADY WHARTON. When Jove to Ida did the …
Toasting | Drinking
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On our stay in the city of Marseilles, 1826-1831 [ Practices ]
… They end their meal with fruit, followed by an alcoholic beverage, although they drink little of it. Then it is time for tea or coffee. The above holds true for both the rich and the poor, each in accordance with his means. Every time …
France | Drinking
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Toasting glass [ Food & Drink ]
… for alcoholic beverages, and finer, more modern and expensive chinaware and porcelain reserved for exotic beverages (tea, coffee and chocolate). There was only one punchbowl for the entire company. 1 Those who happened to drink directly out of it signaled their social or moral inferiority and instead punch was usually ladled out into individual tumbler glasses. 2 That object, disposed in a central position and … p. 165-203. 2 . On the anxieties associated with drinking out of a common bowl, see Karen Harvey, ‘Barbarity in a Teacup? Punch, Domesticity and Gender in the Eighteenth Century’, Journal of Design History 21 (2008), p. 205-221. Lead …
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Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee houses.’ ( The Spectator n° 10 , 12 March 1711) Addison’s and Steele’s essays in these papers … The Spectator was designed to read by both men and women, it reserved the coffeehouse for male sociability and the tea table for women. This sense of the coffeehouse as a masculine space would only be reinforced later in the eighteenth …
Coffeehouses | Drinking | Public sphere | Politics
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