The author was the first curator of Monticello and a well-respected scholar of Jeffersonian history. Thomas Jefferson paid as much attention to his domestic affairs as he did with affairs of state, and upon his return from Paris he became a well-known epicurean. Marie Kimball gives us biographical details of his epicurean journey and adapts many of his favorite recipes for modern use.
(This book is from the second printing in 1949; it is likely that you will have to play around with any recipes to adapt them to today's ingredients.)
