Keen for fine cuisineĮven before his years abroad, Jefferson was a dedicated foodie. Some of this we gleaned from The Presidents’ Cookbook by Poppy Cannon and Patricia Brooks, now out of print, but cited at The Food Timeline, a fascinating resource created by food editor and librarian Lynne Olver. Minister to France (1785-1789), was a culinary adventurer and an influential gourmet. While George Washington described his manner of living as “plain,” and noted that those who expect more than “a glass of wine and a bit of mutton may be disappointed”–and while Abraham Lincoln’s bodyguard reported that the President “never lost his taste of the things a growing farmer’s boy would like”– Thomas Jefferson, having lived four years in Paris as U.S. John Trumbull miniature of Thomas Jefferson, 1788
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