"Fermented drinks such as alcohol also have the benefit of killing parasites and bringing liquid calories
to the diet, but by the start of the eighteenth-century beer production was eating up nearly half of the
enough farmland for every new mouth in the industrial area. Calories had to come from an outside
Source, beyond the The pursuit of
food has always said the development of society, and in the days of the Victorian Empire, the very start
of our modern industrialized Global food chains, tea with milk and sugar became the answer to Britain's
growing need for cheap nutrition."
Sarah Rose, For all the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula
for the World's Favorite Drink, 2009
7a. What is this quote saying about British Domestic Agriculture?
7b. According to the quote, what do the British
need from outside of their domestic agriculture?
7c. What form will this take?
7d. Why is tea important to British society at the time?
"Again another marked characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon is what may be called an instinct or geniuses
