Leederman, along with UCI Culinary Education Director Chef Jessica Van Roo, led the final portion of the event from the Anteater Recreation Center (ARC). “From that moment on, tea was trending,” Hoffer said. Interested faculty are invited to share their vision for leadership of the next chapter for Illuminations by submitting a CV and one-page statement of interest to Assistant Vice Chancellor of Strategic Initiatives Carol Jun at by January 4, 2022. She also discussed Shennong, an ancient Chinese emperor who was the first to discover the healing properties of tea leaves in regard to fatigue and disease. More information on this initiative is available on the Illuminations website. “We can study these two shockingly compatible items to see the way that economic, political and social factors transformed the African peoples and redesigned the British table to be a global one,” Hoffer said.Įven after the abolition of the slave trade, Hoffer explained that mercantile shops revealed the “obsessive need for sugar in daily life” and societal capacity for mass consumption. Lewis explained that tea tables indicated “modernity” and “refinement.”Īlthough tea houses served as an important source of female employment and a place for women to form their own communities, both tea and sugar “remained at the forefront” of the consumer revolution, which Hoffer described in the next portion of the event.
Working together, each of us doing our part, we can move UCI Forward. She also discussed the origins of tea, noting that products - including tea tables - were “proliferating and being manufactured” during the 18th century. UCI Forward is our commitment to the well-being of our community as we ramp up campus operations. Tea plays a central role in modernizing women,” Lewis said. “ used food to create a place in time for interactions between sexes and between women.
Lewis began the event by expressing her enthusiasm about Austen, an 18th-century English novelist best known for works such as “Pride and Prejudice” and “Emma.” Lewis then went on to express the importance of the tea table in Austen’s time. candidates Rachel Hoffer and Tara Leederman. The event was led by UCI English professor Dr. UCI Illuminations, an arts and culture initiative established by Chancellor Howard Gillman, hosted a workshop recreating Jane Austen’s tea table on Feb.
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