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Food & Drink

Articles on Jefferson's interest in food and dining and the accomplishments of Monticello's French-trained, enslaved chefs.

57 Entries

• Adrien Petit
• Artemisia dracanculus sativa - French Tarragon
• Askos
• Batter Cakes
• Beer
• Bees and Honey
• Cherries
• Codfish
• Coffee
• Constantia Wine
• Crops at Monticello
• Cut Jelly Glasses
• Dining at the President's House
• Dining with Congress
• Dinner Etiquette
• Drury Wood
• Dumbwaiters
• Dutch Ovens
• Edith Hern Fossett
• Étienne Lemaire
• Fish
• Fishing
• Friendship like wine (Quotation)
• Good wine is a necessity of life for me (Spurious Quotation)
• Herbs
• Humulus lupulus - Hops
• Ice Cream
• Ice House
• James Hemings
• Jefferson Cups
• Jeffersonian Dinners
• John Vaughan
• Joseph Miller
• Macaroni
• Madeira Decanter
• Mammoth Cheese
• Mary Randolph (Physiognotrace)
• Mediterranean Journey (1787)
• Monticello Dining Room
• Monticello Recipe Sources
• Muffins
• Peter Hemings
• Revolving Serving Door
• Short Plain Jelly Glasses
• Short Tumbler
• Silver Goblets
• Silver Plates by Lamine
• Soup Ladle
• Tall Plain Jelly Glasses
• Tall Tumbler
• Tea
• Thomas Moore's Portable Refrigerator
• Vegetable Dishes
• Vegetarianism
• Water Supply
• Whiskey
• Wine

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