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Born on the 13th of April in 1743, the third United States President and first Secretary of State was born in Shadwell, Virginia.
"Jefferson was born April 13, 1743, on his father's plantation of located along the Rivanna River in the Piedmont region of central Virginia at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His father Peter Jefferson was a successful planter and surveyor and his mother Jane Randolph a member of one of Virginia's most distinguished families. When Jefferson was fourteen, his father died, and he inherited a sizeable estate of approximately 5,000 acres. That inheritance included the house at Shadwell, but Jefferson dreamed of living on a mountain."[Source: www.monticello.org]
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ALSO! "Thomas Jefferson—possibly the first American foodie—is generally credited with introducing the French fry to America; and in his case the fries were definitely French, Jefferson having encountered them while serving as American Minister to France from 1784 to 1789. Jefferson had his slave James Heming—brother of the famous Sally—trained as a chef during his stay in France, and about 150 recipes that he collected at the time have survived, some recorded in Jefferson's own hand, others transcribed and passed down by his granddaughters. Among these are such current all-American favorites as vanilla ice cream, macaroni and cheese (for which Jefferson sent to Naples for a "maccaroni machine"), and fried potatoes, which Jefferson originally knew as pommes de terre frites à cru en petites tranches (potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small cuttings)." [Source: NationalGeographic.com]
Foods Jefferson Had Introduced to America: Ice Cream, Macaroni and Cheese, French Fries, Champagne, Parmesan Cheese, etc.
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