HILD 2A-B-C Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cider, Tankard, Pasteurization
3 Mar 2018
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They realized would lack concerts, art, music urban entertainment but worth it. Hamilton: with increasing population should focus on east coast, labor force. By focusing on drinking, able to demonstrate daily life before capitalist development (aka during jefferson admin): Suspicious of gen pop; believed only wealthy men should rule. Americans on colossal binge ; day drinking; all guests invited to house always offered wine. 1821: scholar told jefferson that nation going to be full of drunkards/sots because so much booze. John adams (cid:3247)intemperance(cid:3248) negatively looked at it but he too drank tankard of hard cider for bfast. Craftsmen master had apprentices get molasses and run break (instead of coffee break) At turn of 19th century, poor diet because no preservation of fruit and vegetables (maybe potatoes, turnip, apples) Diet: corn, salt park, root veggies, poor cooking/primitive recipes. Whiskey also becoming more plentiful due to colonial/westward expansion where farmers in new land were growing corn and wheat.
