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Jefferson and food and wine

"I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet."
--Thomas Jefferson, 1819

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Dining at Monticello

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Monticello Reports, Articles, and Research Tools

A Culinary Independence: Jefferson for July 4th (podcast)
Coffee
Dinners
English Muffin Recipe
Ice Cream Recipe
Jefferson Cups
Monticello's Dumbwaiters
Selected Books on Domestic Life at Monticello
The Philosophy of Beer
Was Jefferson a Vegetarian?

Jefferson Section

"Our Breakfast Table"
"Monticello Muffins" recipe
Jefferson's favorite vegetables
"Dinner is Served"
Ice cream recipe
Jefferson and wine
Use of dumbwaiters
Management of the Monticello kitchen
Jefferson's chef and slave, James Hemings

House, Gardens and Plantation Section

Monticello Dining Room
Monticello Tea Room
The Vegetable Garden
The Fruit Garden

3-D views in the Monticello Explorer

Kitchen
Dining Room
Tea Room

Today at Monticello

Saturdays in the Garden: A Series of Lectures, Tastings, Walks, and Workshops
A Culinary Independenc: Jefferson for July 4th (Podcast)
Monticello Cook's Room Now Open (.pdf article)
Monticello Sangiovese Wine (.pdf article)
Images of the restoration of Montcello's Kitchen
Jefferson-related items at the Monticello Online Shop
Cooking-Related Books at the Monticello Online Shop