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Afternoon Tea: A History

Afternoon Tea: A History

Hardcover

Series: Meals

Food WritingAnthropology

ISBN10: 1442271019
ISBN13: 9781442271012
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Apr 5 2019
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Afternoon Tea: A History explores the development of the afternoon tea meal, diving deeper than the popular tale of the Duchess of Bedford's afternoon gatherings to find the meals that inspired those early afternoon teas. Julia Skinner carefully separates the fact and lore around the meal and sets the story of afternoon tea within its historic contexts. Recognizing that a meal's birth and life never happen in a vacuum, the book sets aside the already well-documented conversations surrounding tea etiquette, instead exploring the social contexts that made the meal possible and popular, moving it from one small subset of the population to a widespread and beloved phenomenon, one that nearly died out at the end of the 20th century before experiencing a resurgence in the 21st.


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