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Toasting glass [ Food & Drink ]

… individuals’ tastes and social standing, or political identities. Objects > Food & Drink Mots-clés Glass Tableware drinking Toasting ritual In the course of the seventeenth century, toasting, or health-drinking as it was known, evolved into a ritual that spread across all social categories. The custom of drinking out of communal bowls or cups was increasingly frowned upon and individual glasses became common. This new …

Inns [ Residences & Lodgings ]

… functioned as sociable spaces for locals, travellers, tradesmen, and politicians. In the hierarchy of eighteenth-century drinking-places, inns were superior to pubs and alehouses. They sometimes functioned as settings for novels, facilitating … advent of the railway network in the nineteenth century, they began to decline. Places > Residences & Lodgings Mots-clés drinking Travel Class boundaries Hospitality Sociability in fiction In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a … local politics. The inn, much older than the comparatively young coffee-house, was one of several types of eating and drinking venue. Chaucer's medieval Tabard, offering food and accommodation for pilgrims 2 , is the British literary …

Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]

… societies, and was the bond that lubricated many criminal associations. Objects > Food & Drink Practices > Eating & Drinking Concepts > Social interaction Mots-clés Gin alcool crime Friendship drinking establishments London Poverty Gin, the colourless spirit flavoured with juniper, can be classed as an object. … for the quality of the clientele – but also other aspects of the design and furnishings that facilitated speedy solitary drinking. They usually comprised a single room that could be entered directly from the street, allowing direct access …

Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]

… individuals for a ritual encounter and structured sociability.  Objects > Food & Drink Mots-clés Punch Ceramic Tableware drinking masculinity ritual Celebration Conviviality Punch was a drink made from a blend of alcohol spirit, fruit, sugar, … Present, (no. 214, 2012), pp. 174-180. The punch bowl itself was an object that straddled distinctions in the market of drinking objects. In the early eighteenth century the bowls were made from silver, pewter, glass and a range of ceramics, … fine earthenware, punch was served in a bowl which blended the associations of rowdy, refined, associational and polite drinking cultures. 2  That bowls were produced in many different sizes also made them accessible to groups small and …

Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]

… Résumé The tea-table is an object, an event, and an idea, the context of which is the emergence of tea drinking in Britain in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. As an item of furniture, the tea-table is a small table, imported from Asia or of domestic manufacture, whose purpose was to facilitate tea drinking. As an event, the practice of tea drinking was a polite and sociable encounter staged around the tea-table. In media representations (visual culture, …

Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]

… imagined. Coffeehouses were centres of sociability because they brought people together for the ostensible purpose of drinking coffee, but they also encouraged discussion and often debate over matters of common interest. News gathering, news reading and news sharing were as integral to coffeehouse sociability as coffee drinking. Rather than seeing the coffeehouse as a wholly unique and liberal institution, more recent studies have … which it emerged out of, and was integrated into, the social structures of early modernity. Rather than replacing older drinking spaces such as the alehouse or the tavern, the rise of the coffeehouse is now best understood as the emergence …