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#11 Thomas Jefferson's Garden
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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Jun 9, 2015
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Podcast episode
Description
This Food Non-Fiction podcast episode is about the founding foodie, Thomas Jefferson. More specifically, we talk about his gardens at Monticello. Jefferson collected crops from all over the known world in his time. He planted a huge variety of fruits and vegetables and helped to spread the seeds. The south-facing design of the Monticello gardens allowed him to plant crops from cold to tropical climates as the location captured a lot of sunlight and tempered the cold winters. Jefferson enjoyed salads and even grew sesame seeds so that he could make salad dressing oil out of them. The Monticello gardens are indeed amazing, but they would not have existed without the work of slaves. In this episode we talk about 2 people who were kept as slaves and worked at Monticello. The first is James Hemings and the second is Edith Fossett - both were trained as French chefs and cooked amazing meals. References: Monticello.org Thomas Jefferson's ice cream recipe (typed out) Thomas Jefferson's ice cream recipe (handwritten original)
Released:
Jun 9, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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