Encyclopedia
Food & Drink
Articles about foodways at Monticello.
-
![A recipe for Snow Eggs written out in a notebook in Martha Jefferson Randolph's hand.]()
-
![Sea Kale growing at Monticello with a clay blanching pot nearby.]()
EncyclopediaVegetable Garden FAQs
-
![Drawing of two women working with milk on opposite sides of a room lined with shelves holding bowls of various sizes and two small butter churns on the floor.]()
EncyclopediaDairying
-
![Cuts of "Pork" and "Beef" drawn out and numbered one side by side images of a pig and cow with the cuts listed out below.]()
EncyclopediaPreservation of Meat
-
![Digital model of smokehouse/dairy, along wooden, a-framed building with a central area of slightly different construction, a single central door, and no windows.]()
EncyclopediaSmokehouse/Dairy
-
![AI generated image from an original Monticello photograph]()
Eggplant
Solanum melongena ‘esculentum’
West Lawn Winding Flower Walk
-
![]()
Taliaferro Apple
Malus pumila
-
![A document in Jefferson's hand describing how to make pasta dough along with a small sketch of a press for making pasta with the various parts labeled by with letters and explained in the accompanying text.]()
EncyclopediaMacaroni
-
![]()
Angelique Fig
Ficus carica cv.
-
![Shelves of wine bottles in the restored wine cellar at Monticello.]()
EncyclopediaConstantia Wine
-
![Wooden barrels sit on their sides next to smaller boxes and barrels hold bottles in Monticello Beer Cellar.]()
EncyclopediaBeer
-
![]()
EncyclopediaBatter Cakes
-
![A collection of several varieties of apples set out on a wooden bench.]()
StoryCider at Monticello
-
![A wide shot of Monticello's West Lawn on a clear day with snow on the ground.]()
StoryHolidays at Monticello
-
![]()
Story4 Foods Jefferson Helped Popularize in America
-
![]()
StoryRecipe: To Dress Salad
-
![Monticello's restored 1809 Kitchen]()
StoryJefferson-era Recipe: Fried Potatoes
-
![]()
StoryJefferson-era Recipe: Cherries
-
![A table in Monticello's Dining Room is set for six guest with a white cloth, white china with light green detail, Jefferson cups, and silver cutlery, with two dumbwaiters flanking on opposite corners.]()
Food
-
![Watercolor by Gail McIntosh depicting Benjamin Franklin Randolph at breakfast demonstrating to Dolley Madison and others how to prepare one of the muffins being delivered on a tray by enslaved butler Burwell Colbert.]()
A Child's View of Breakfast
-
![A recipe for ice cream written out by Thomas Jefferson on a long strip of paper.]()
"Ice-creams were produced"
