is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Before 'Farm to Table': Early Modern Foodways and Culture project, a Mellon-funded initiative at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Her doctoral thesis, completed at Royal Holloway University of London, focused on food practices at the Mughal court. Her research interests include history of consumption practices, medicine, emotions, pleasure, and leisure in early-modern South Asia.
Before there were Starbucks and the quirky coffeeshops masquerading as cozy work corners for many of us, there was the mid-17th century coffeeshop boom in England. During the 1600s, the general conversation about coffee nodded to its status as the…
