Monticello Blog

Time for another installment of our series in which we post a recipe from The Virginia House-wife.

Around 1811, Jefferson wrote a letter to his granddaughter Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, which contained a list of twelve “Canons of Conduct in Life” – rules to live by, in essence. In 1825 he sent the same list, minus two rules, to a baby boy named Thomas Jefferson Smith in response to a request from the child’s father.

If only we could showcase everything! An upcoming exhibition will contain ten panels that investigate the people, buildings, and industries of Mulberry Row. Only dozens of artifacts of many thousands of artifacts recovered by the Monticello Archaeology Department will make it to the display cases. So, how do we choose?

Leni Sorensen prepares recipe an early tomato-based catsup sauce from the 1800s.

A Wall Street Journal story on Jefferson's influence on decorator and former White House design consultant Carleton Varney.

How to make peach marmalade according to Mary Randolph, who published "The Virginia House-Wife" cookbook in 1824l

In the third and final posting this series, we’ll briefly consider how the intellectual legacies of the New Archaeology affect current archaeological practice and our approach to the reanalysis of Pi-Sunyer (part 1) and Kelso’s (part 2) finds on Mulberry Row.

Over 20 years after Oriel Pie-Sunyer, William Kelso brought a different set of field techniques to his work on Mulberry Row.

Leni Sorensen, a culinary historian of national repute, prepares eggplant using an 19th-century recipe.