Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… when he ascended to the throne of Britain in 1688. In The Fable of the Bees , one of the earliest references to gin in print, Bernard Mandeville explains the origins of the name and indicates that already in 1714 it was associated with the … the available data: 1 . Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices, Publick [sic] Benefits (London: printed for J. Rorerts, 1714), remark G. ‘In 1700, the average adult drank slightly more than a third of the gallon of …
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