Every Home a Distillery March 9, 2010

On Tuesday, March 9, Dr. Sarah Hand Meacham will present “Every Home a Distillery” at 7:30 p.m. in Room 212 (the Topping Room) in Old Chapel, located on R-MC’s historic campus. Alcohol was essential to survival in early America and women were its primary producers. Meacham, the author of Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), will discuss the crucial role women played in cidering and distilling in the colonial Chesapeake, and how men supplanted them by using newer and cheaper technologies. Much of her original research is based on advice and recipes published for women in guidebooks such as The Accomplished Lady's Delight. Meacham is an assistant professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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