Thomas Jefferson’s Creme Brûlée: How a Founding Father and His Slave James Hemings Introduced French Cuisine to America
by Thomas J. Craughwell
Buy on AmazonBut perhaps most fascinating in Craughwell’s account is the role Jefferson played in championing vegetables and minimal animal products more than 200 years before Michael Pollan , popularizing indispensable plant species previously thought inedible, and even pioneering modern-day buzzword concepts like urban farming.
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"But perhaps most fascinating in Craughwell’s account is the role Jefferson played in championing vegetables and minimal animal products more than 200 years before Michael Pollan , popularizing indispensable plant species previously thought inedible, and even pioneering modern-day buzzword concepts like urban farming."
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