Food & Drink
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Articles on Jefferson's interest in food and dining and the accomplishments of Monticello's French-trained, enslaved chefs.
- 1809 Kitchen
- Adrien Petit
- Apples at Monticello
- 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 Room
- Dining with Congress
- Dinner Etiquette
- Drury Wood
- Dumbwaiters
- Dutch Ovens
- Edith Hern Fossett
- Étienne Lemaire
- Fish
- Fish Ponds at Monticello
- Fishing
- Friendship like wine (Quotation)
- Glass Tumblers
- 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
- Jelly Glasses
- John Vaughan
- Joseph Miller
- Macaroni
- Madeira Decanter
- Mammoth Cheese
- Mary Randolph
- Mediterranean Journey (1787)
- Monticello Recipe Sources
- Muffins
- Peter Hemings
- Revolving Serving Door
- Short Plain Jelly Glasses
- Short Tumbler
- Silver Goblets
- Silver Plates by Lamine
- Soup Ladle
- Tea
- Thomas Moore's Portable Refrigerator
- Vegetable Dishes
- Vegetarianism
- Water Supply
- Whiskey
- Wine