ABSTRACT
This chapter is an auto/biographical telling by Carol Tulloch of her parents’ cocktail champagne glass in their practice of settlement and becoming. The study takes note of the ‘cultural bereavement’ experienced by Caribbean migrants, and what role the choice and use of such objects can have on their sense of well-being post-migration. It also considers what this object means in the lives of their children, following inheritance. A critical frame of this chapter is the issue of difference, in terms of class, ‘race’ and ethnicity, and the invisibility of certain taste-makers in post-war Britain considered within the context of glamour and the everyday, as the underlying tenets of glamour are knowledge, the forbidden, longing, admiration and aspiration, useful considerations in a re-evaluation of taste after Bourdieu.
