{"id":824,"date":"2008-06-06T10:51:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T10:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cocktailians.com\/2008\/06\/our-sadly-sober.html"},"modified":"2008-06-06T10:51:54","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T10:51:54","slug":"our-sadly-sober","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"Our Sadly Sober Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m stealing this quote in its entirety from <a href=\"http:\/\/jesuschris.tumblr.com\/post\/37197008\/it-is-probably-not-even-an-exaggeration-to-say\">jesuschris&#8217; tumblr blog<\/a>, which is an excellent found-picture blog with the occasional nugget like this in it:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"quote\"><em><big>\u201c<\/big><span class=\"long\">It is probably not even an exaggeration to say that pretty much everyone in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was in a continuous state of mild inebriation. A Berkshire farmer named Robert Loder, for example, kept accounts from 1611 to 1618 showing that each person in his household drank, on average, between 1 and 1 and a half gallons of beer a day. Likewise, during Elizabeth\u2019s reign, the royal household consumed approximately 600,000 gallons of beer annually. That household supported between 1000 and 1500 aristocrats and servants, meaning that each person tossed back between 400 and 600 gallons a year, or about 1 to 1 and a half gallons a day. This included children. Dietary handbooks did not debate whether children should drink alcohol, but how much. Richard West, in his 1619 \u2018Schoole of Vertue,\u2019 was typical: \u2018Let not a childe drinke above twice or thrice at the most at one meal, and that gently, and not without reason: who bestoweth wine and beer on his childe beyond reason, defameth and abuseth him.\u2019<\/span><\/em> <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"source\">\u2014 (from \u201cCooking with Shakespeare\u201d by Mark Morton and Andrew Coppolino, Greenwood Press, 2008, p. 267)<\/div>\n<div class=\"source\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m stealing this quote in its entirety from jesuschris&#8217; tumblr blog, which is an excellent found-picture blog with the occasional nugget like this in it: \u201cIt is probably not even an exaggeration to say that pretty much everyone in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was in a continuous state of mild inebriation. A Berkshire farmer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seen-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}