Accounting for Taste: British Coffee Consumption in Historical Perspective

Smith, S. D.

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“…Beverage consumption changes significantly over time due to cultural, religious, market, and economic factors. Very similar is the case in Britain and Ireland where, in the year 1700, coffee consumption was ten times that of tea, but by the middle of the eighteenth century, the British had become mainly tea drinkers (Smith 1996). The popularity of a new stimulant plant depends significantly on how a society's perception of the plant is built.…”

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Socio–Cultural Significance of Yerba Maté among Syrian Residents and Diaspora

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Socio-Cultural Significance of Yerba Maté among Syrian Residents and Diaspora. Syria is the world's second-largest importer of the dried leaves of Ilex paraguariensis A.St.-Hil., commonly known as yerba maté. The unique story of yerba maté in the Syrian beverage culture started at the beginning of the twentieth century when Syrian migrants returning from South America brought the beverage with them. The overall aim of our study is to understand yerba maté use among Syrians and its role as an essential part of the Syrian beverage culture. We compare yerba maté consumption on spatial, gender, and religious bases through semi-structured interviews with 50 respondents, with equal participation among genders, place of residence, and cultural-religious groups (Sunni, Alawite, Christian, Druze, and Ismaili). We found that the Alawite and Druze groups have the highest yerba maté consumption, and that men drink more than women. Yerba maté was the most preferred stimulant drink among participants, followed by coffee and tea, respectively. Interviews reveal social and cultural factors, perceived addiction, perceived pleasure, and perceived health properties as the drivers behind yerba maté consumption in Syria.

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“…22 Thirdly, Chinese tea quickly became a national British beverage, far surpassing the consumption of coffee and the much more expensive chocolate. 23 Unlike porcelain, tea could not be produced in Britain, though some tried. Until the mid nineteenth century when tea production began in India, Britain increasingly depended on China for its tea supplies.…”

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Teatime in the North Country: Consumption of Chinese Imports in North-East England

Hanser

2012

Northern History

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When we rise (suppose abt. 8 o'clock) we shall be abt. ½ hour in getting our clothes on, then to walk an hour and ½ in the garden, then to study one hour which will bring it to eleven o'clock then breakfast and dress which will bring it to ½ an hour after 12 from which time to 2 to study which will be an hour and ½ study at 2 to dine, to drink tea the 3d hour from sitting down to dinner and from dinner to tea time to sit quiet in that the victuals may digest, after tea walk an hour then study 'till supper. To sup, then sit 3 hours quietly that supper may digest, then take a gentle turn abt. the room for a quarter of an hour, then go to bed.

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“… 3 For studies of the major import trades, see Price, ‘Economic growth’; Menard, ‘Tobacco industry’; McCusker and Menard, ‘Sugar industry’; Sheridan, Sugar and slavery ; McCusker, Rum and the American Revolution ; Smith, ‘Accounting for taste’; Nash, ‘South Carolina’. …”

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“…300–1; Price, France and the Chesapeake , vol. 2, p. 843; Smith, ‘Accounting for taste’, p. 185; and the studies of the French Atlantic ports cited in notes to tab. 1.…”

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South Carolina indigo, European textiles, and the British Atlantic economy in the eighteenth century

Nash

2010

The Economic History Review

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Europe's indigo imports grew rapidly from the 1720s, but the mid-century wars had a devastating effect on the European textile industries and hence on the indigo trade. Britain's indigo market, however, boomed in wartime on the bases of prize indigo captured from France and Spain and of indigo imported from South Carolina.The rise of South Carolina's trade from the mid-1740s was not caused, as the historiography claims, by its monopoly of the British market-such a monopoly never existed-but because the depression in South Carolina's major staple, rice, compelled a remodelling of the South Carolina plantation system, which produced an elastic supply of indigo. Carolina indigo was blighted by a poor reputation, not, as is usually argued, because British merchants maligned unfairly its quality, but because Carolina planters failed to achieve consistent production standards. Carolina indigo nevertheless succeeded in displacing French and Spanish indigo in the British and in some continental markets, reflecting the demand for cheap dyestuffs from manufacturers of low-cost textiles, the fastest-growing sectors of the European textile industries at the onset of industrialization. I f foreign trade was the fastest-growing sector of the eighteenth-century British economy then it was trade with America, rather than with the traditional European markets, that was the fastest-growing sector of foreign trade.Thus, while the total value of England's imports rose from £5.8 million c.1700 to £12.7 million c.1775, America's share of these imports doubled from 20 to 40 per cent. 2 The hub of this trade was to be found in the slave-plantation colonies of the West Indies and the southern mainland, whose sugar, rum, coffee, tobacco, and rice made up 80 per cent of England's American imports by 1775.The production and marketing of these exotic consumables have received ample attention in the historiography. 3 However, the trades in raw materials, such as the timber and naval stores supplied by the northern colonies and the cotton and dyestuffs imported from the West Indies and South Carolina, have attracted less research. The leaststudied of the raw materials trades is that in dyestuffs, perhaps reflecting the fact that dyestuffs made up only 5 per cent of total English imports. Yet the trade provided the British textile industry with virtually its entire supply of dyestuffs and hence had a strategic importance out of all proportion to its monetary value. The 1 I would like to thank Steve Rigby and Pete Maw for their valuable comments on earlier drafts of this paper, Paolo Di Martino for additional suggestions, and Hilary Wood for her excellent research assistance.2 Davis, 'English foreign trade', pp. 300-1; Cole, 'Factors in demand ', pp. 38-42. 3 For studies of the major import trades,

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Accounting for Taste: British Coffee Consumption in Historical Perspective

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Socio–Cultural Significance of Yerba Maté among Syrian Residents and Diaspora

Socio–Cultural Significance of Yerba Maté among Syrian Residents and Diaspora

Teatime in the North Country: Consumption of Chinese Imports in North-East England

South Carolina indigo, European textiles, and the British Atlantic economy in the eighteenth century

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