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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