Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… 1-6. As sugar became ever more affordable in Britain, it played an important role in what Clare Midgley has called ‘new rituals of sociability’ in the eighteenth-century British home, which were related to tea and the tea-table. 4 If, prior … icon that resonates in several ways. A fair number of poems and essays pay tribute to this new substance and the rituals surrounding it. 7 Peter Motteux's ‘ Poem upon Tea ‘ (1712) envisions a community of classical gods and … female tea-table, accusing its participants of ‘slander’ and malicious gossip. Sugar was also part of a male sociable ritual, the consumption (and sometimes also preparation) of punch, a drink made up from sugar, spices, rum, fruit, and …
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