Making Chocolate in the British Atlantic World: Foodways, Consumption and Heritage

在英国大西洋世界制作巧克力：饮食方式、消费和传统

• 批准号: 2756332
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2756332
• 关键词: Making; Chocolate; British; Atlantic; World

This PhD studentship will explore early modern chocolate between the late sixteenth and eighteenthcenturies: where the ingredients for this drink were grown and harvested; how they were sourcedand imported, who purchased them and at what price. It will explore how ideas about chocolate,including its origins in First Nations (Native or Indigenous American) culture and its cultivation byenslaved women and men of African descent, influenced conceptions of race, nationality, and BlackBritish history.Despite the prevalence and popularity of chocolate in the period, surprisingly little has been done totrace either its patterns of consumption or the ways it was imagined, intellectually andiconographically. Ingredients for chocolate - which was consumed as a hot beverage flavoured withchilli, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla and sugar - were sourced from around the globe, and the Britishpublic associated the drinks with exoticism and the 'otherness' of the empire, playing a key role inthe 'consumer revolution' of the period.To better understand the full nuance of chocolate's presence and legacy in Britain, the studentworking on this project will undertake a project on the 'long history' of early modern chocolate,working in multiple archives and utilising many different types of historical evidence. This willinclude an investigation of the chocolate kitchens built at Hampton Court Palace, Kew Palace (HRP)and Dyrham Park (NT) which attest to the drink's importance in the period, and provide importantinformation about its consumption and cultural circulation. Dyrham's rich collections, which includea notable painting of a cacao tree dating from the late seventeenth century, will help this studentbetter understand the reception and marketing of chocolate in the period.

这名博士研究生将探索16世纪末至18世纪之间的早期现代巧克力：这种饮料的原料是在哪里种植和收获的；它们是如何来源和进口的，是谁购买的，以什么价格购买的。它将探索关于巧克力的观念，包括它在第一民族（土著或美洲土著）文化中的起源，以及被奴役的非洲裔男女的种植，如何影响种族、国籍和黑人英国历史的概念。尽管巧克力在那个时期很流行，很受欢迎，但令人惊讶的是，几乎没有人去追踪它的消费模式，也没有人去追踪它在智力和图像上被想象出来的方式。巧克力是一种热饮，用辣椒、肉豆蔻、肉桂、香草和糖调味，原料来自全球各地，英国公众将这种饮料与异国情调和帝国的“异类”联系在一起，在当时的“消费革命”中发挥了关键作用。为了更好地了解巧克力在英国的存在和遗产的全部细微差别，参与这个项目的学生将承担一个关于早期现代巧克力“悠久历史”的项目，在多个档案中工作，并利用许多不同类型的历史证据。这将包括对汉普顿宫、邱园和戴伦公园建造的巧克力厨房的调查，这些厨房证明了这种饮料在那个时期的重要性，并提供了有关其消费和文化流通的重要信息。Dyrham丰富的收藏，其中包括一幅著名的可可树画，可以追溯到17世纪晚期，将帮助这个学生更好地理解那个时期巧克力的接受和营销。