Coffee or tea: in dickens’s world, it may be the choice between good and evil.

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Coffee or tea: in dickens’s world, it may be the choice between good and evil.
Charles Dickens’s whimsical novel of today’s birthday is filled with the odd, angel, scoundrel and charming characters who constantly invite each other to drink tea. However, not everyone drinks tea. Some people like coffee.
A harmless preference, you might say.
British food historian, he said, the speed is not fast, he had a fanciful but very wonderful theory, can provide according to the who drink Victoria the author’s moral fiber of various kinds of characters. According to her, good men like tea, while those who prefer tea drink coffee.
With dickens hold a dinner party, her elaborate new book Vogler combines the dual passion for British food and Charles Dickens, re-create the 60 kinds of Victoria style dishes, these dishes with both of his novels as well as the life of him. Recipes for modern chef updates – covers the pork pie Pip in great expectations for the convict Magwitch steal everything, from Christmas carols and grilled goose and plum pudding to help relieve Mr Micawber bankruptcy blues fragrant bowl. David Copperfield.
In the diet, with literature, describe how dickens in a shoe factory work experience at the age of 12 hunger and poverty – not only for the senses and drama, but also provide key insights and expose social false personality. A trenchant example of the latter can be found in Bleak House found, there, sitting on the streets of London’s miserable orphan boy chewed bread “dirty”, and sit at the gate of the legendary evangelical missionary society in foreign parts.
While investigating the fascinating dickens relationship between food and morality, vogler proposed her tea – good coffee – bad theory.
“This is a kind of observation rather than as a rule,” she said with a smile, “there are a lot of cases, and like dickens anything, this is not the most credible, tea often (though not always a comfortable and feminine ceremony) part of; Coffee is seen as more dynamic, more powerful, perhaps thanks to its caffeine boost, but also with the 19 association day-century cafe, where individuals gather to talk about politics. ”
In having dinner with Charles Dickens, British food historian pan wagoner will English food dual passion together, and Charles Dickens reproduce 60 Victorian cuisine features, both novels and his life.
Perhaps the notorious coffee drinker created by the notorious dickens was a deceptive “retractable philanthropist” from Bleak House, Mrs. Jellyby. Her completely from her own children (constantly falling down the stairs) difficulties, or completely from the sufferings of the speeches like Joe, she spent all her time to drink coffee, it is said that in a field called Borrioboola – Gha fiction in promoting the welfare of the African people. “She ignored her role as a mother and wife, and she wrote a late-night coffee letter to promote her coffee growing charity,” Mr. Vogler said. “Yes, but, like all dickens’s bad mothers, it was a chilling feeling for his own misfortune. Even after his father was liberated from the debtor’s prison, he would never forgive his mother for wanting him to continue working in the black chemical plant rather than go to school. ”
Coffee also brings to mind the character of the Ukrainian lady brought by David Copperfield. “It was a very painful scene,” Mr. Vogler said. “David invited Uriah Heep to have a cup of coffee, intent on a very human encounter with Uriah Heep, and Uriah Heep would be genuinely angry and subversive. His vaunted excitement about his service turned David’s hospitality into servility and castration. His fingers beat off David and then asked him “to further enslavement with another cup of coffee” was very dull. ”
In the “two cities”, fu he pointed out that “bloodletting during the French revolution, pointing to” walker chilling scene, in the chilling scene, marquise drinking coffee and talking to his nephew veil and the threat of poisonous. “His” transparent pale face “and” very slight “nostrils, the marquis was a cruel study.
The decaffeinated rogue gallery is a shameless sponge and Harold Skimpole from Bleak House, who is perfectly satisfied with the best things in life as long as others pay for them. As he declared, “give me my peach, my cup of coffee and my red wine, I am content.”
For the hospitable tea drinkers, compared with the old curiosity shop more influential example of scene, where hunger and abused little maid called march oce – one of the most sentimental force a portrait of dickens’ – care kind dix weiler came back from the edge. “She kissed her own tea and gave him breakfast; Dick first felt sorry for the girl and bought her beef and beer, which was a mirror, “Mr. Vogler said. “They are an odd couple, they provided another in some way, nutrition and love this nutrient taken a pregnant women and love, father and romantic love, but not suitable for any category.”
It is also worth mentioning that the Pip village blacksmith’s brother-in-law, Joe Gargery, from Great Expectations. “Like Uriah Heep, true modesty and good, Joe is a natural tea drinker,” says Vogler. “The great expectation is that dickens’s novels are most concerned with the social class and are not in accordance with natural goodness; When Joe PIP move upward in London visit, two people in a scene not comfortably together, he is very shameful to shame – Joe when PIP friend Herbert asked him to drink tea or coffee, he was too embarrassed, don’t want to choose, but when Herbert when choosing more complex coffee for him,
“Since you are so kind, don’t worry about your opinion, but don’t you think it’s a bit of a food?
“Tea, then,” Herbert said, and poured it out. ”
Vogler warns that her observations are not cast iron. “You’re going to find a lot of counterexamples, and I don’t pretend that tea is a universal signal of virtue,” she said. “For example, in the old curiosity shop, the bad dwarf quilp deliberately turned over his hot tea to frighten his wife and mother-in-law.” What is more distasteful is that he likes to eat boiled eggs and seashells – the detail that evokes his hidden depth.
In general, most of dickens’s characters drink tea. “For their daily life, this is a regular and welcome punctuation mark, which indicates that it is also in his daily life,” Mr. Vogler said. “After the tea tax cuts in 1784, the tea consumption has risen sharply, and quickly became the mainstay of all classes, for the working class of dickens characters, tea is a kind of” warm and greasy food, comfort, and coffee, first proposed the idea of delicate and cruel “.
Or perhaps the word “coffee” from that miserable year in a dark factory has set off dickens’s unpleasant memories. He to his friends and the first biographer John foster, at a local coffee shop, “how to taste a half cup of coffee and a piece of bread and butter”, he experienced something he impressed by:
On the door was an oval glass plate, with a coffee-room painted on it, towards the street. If I now find myself in a very different kind of coffee shop, but the glass has the inscription, and at the wrong side of the backward, MOOR – EEFFOC (as I often used to do, in the dream of a desolate,) my blood trembled.
The shock of reading back makes the already fragile boy feel more alone, which makes the familiar environment on the streets of London seem strange and absurd. Perhaps deacon’s subconscious hostility to coffee – if he really has coffee – is rooted in the shudder of a strange and senseless word, MOOR-EEFFOC. The word is almost as mysterious as “covfefe”.

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