Thomas Jefferson: America’s First Franco – and Italophile, Oenophile and Foodie
Jefferson (1743-1826), besides being an oenophile, diplomat, and politician, was a farmer, obsessed with new crops, soil conditions, garden design, and scientific agricultural techniques, a horticulturalist and a foodie. Jefferson’s culinary preferences were certainly refined during his years as Minister to France, but even before his time abroad, Jefferson had...
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