Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… of new-style coffee shops and old-style ale houses. Yet it has a sociable dimension. It was frequently included in punch, the archetypal drink of clubs and friendly societies, and was the bond that lubricated many criminal associations. … in company and could be a drink that brought people together. It figured in recipes for that most sociable of beverages: punch which, as Karen Harvey has pointed out, was often served at club meetings. 5 It was common for people too to share … a quart pint of gin between them. Gin drinking often went on in the workplace thus in group contexts. 5 . Karen Harvey, ‘Punchbowls’, The Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century. …
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