When Temperance Met Commerce

Coffee Palaces in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia

Authors

  • Paul van Reyk Independent Scholar Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27811

Keywords:

Australia, teetotalism, temperance, 19th-century, Food and Class, self-improvement, hospitality industry, abstinence, Food and Politics, Coffee Palaces, reading rooms, non-alcoholic stimulants

Abstract

This article explores the coffee palace phenomenon in late 19th-Century Australia. Unsaid but commonly understood by this time was that a ‘coffee palace’ was alcohol-free: no sales and no consumption on the premises which had reached Australia from the USA and United Kingdom by the 1870s. 

Author Biography

  • Paul van Reyk, Independent Scholar

    Paul van Reyk is a food writer and historian who has been published in PPC, Gastronomica and Divine magazine. He has presented at Symposiums of Australian Gastronomy. He is the author of True to the Land: A History of Food in Australia, published by Reaktion in 2021.

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Published

2021-11-01

Issue

PPC 121 (2021)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

van Reyk, Paul. 2021. “When Temperance Met Commerce: Coffee Palaces in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia”. Petits Propos Culinaires, November, 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27811.