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| An integrated system of learned behavior patterns that are characteristic of the members of any given society. Culture refers to the total way of life for a particular group of people. It includes [what] a group of people thinks, says does and makes – its customs, language, material artifacts and shared systems of attitudes and feelings. |
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| A community of people living in a particular country or region and having shared customs, laws, and organizations. |
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| When were the movements of people from rural to urban areas (growth of industry) & the Enclosure Acts? |
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| End of the 18th Century & leading into the 19th Century |
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| When did the middle class begin growing with Britain? And why? |
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| The end of the 18th Century into the 19th century, because of Food imports and and increase due to colonisation (large scale migration) and transport. |
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| During the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century what gender dominated in food preperation? |
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Bread,Pottage (a stew with grains or beans), Potatoes, Cabbage, Onions, Turnips, Pork, Herring, small amounts of dairy.
Cooking Methods: roasting, boiling and stewing |
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| When did the Enclosure acts take place? And what were they? |
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1750's
A series of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament which enclosed open fields and common land in the country, creating legal property rights to land that was previously considered common. |
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| What important events took place through the mid 1700's leading to the 1800's? |
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-Enclosure Acts
-Advancements in agricultural technologies
-Industrial Revolution and urbanization
-French Revolution, 1789
-Growth of population from 5 million to 9 million
-Improved transportation such as roads and canals
-1650's tea imported from China - in 1784 tea becomes enjoyed by all social classes, not just the wealthy |
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| What brought the Decline of British Cuisine? |
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-Enclosures Act and Industrial Revolution
-Middle/upper class preferences for French cuisine over British
-Advent of technological advancements in freezing, canning, packaging and retailing
-Victorian social climbing, beliefs about raw foods, discomfort with the pleasure factor of eating, the place of children
-War |
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| What are the foldaways of people? |
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| When food meets culture and history |
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| How can one define Society? |
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| Through social bonds and relationships, patterned interactions and institutions |
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| When was the Victorian Period? |
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| How did the Britain social classes work? |
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| People are born into social classes, they do not work their way up |
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