Posted on 01/10/2018 6:26:48 PM PST by mairdie
Archaeologists have uncovered the 250-year-old kitchen of Thomas Jefferson's enslaved chef, James Hemings, who introduced mac and cheese and meringues into US culture.
Hemings became the property of Thomas Jefferson in January of 1774 when he was just nine years old.
His younger sister is Sally Hemings, who had six children believed to have been fathered by Jefferson after the death of his wife Martha Jefferson.
Growing up, Hemings was one of Jefferson's favorite servants and even accompanied him to Paris, France, in 1784.
In France, Hemings learned the art of French cookery and upon their return to America, he introduced crème brûlée, meringues and continental European-style macaroni and cheese to American cooking.
Hemings became one of the most masterful chefs in the US and prepared dishes for the future president and his guests in the kitchen of Jefferson's Virginia plantation, Monticello.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Total, unadulterated, virtue-signalling male cow manure.
PFL
Rosedale Plantation house in Charlotte has a nicely-preserved basement kitchen. My son’s apartment is just a couple hundred yards from Rosedale and from one of the oldest cemeteries in the city. He and his roommate sometimes go ghost-hunting when they’ve had a few beers.
So, TJ invented the chain restaurant...
Thank God This kid taught us how to make a bechemel, blend in cheese and fold with pasta! Were there toasted bread crumbs?
The culinary scamp!
PING
It is my understanding that DNA testing on Sally Hemming’s children indicated that the father was a male member of the Jefferson family. I also understand that Thomas Jefferson’s brother Randolph was quite the active lad. Of course, it’s so easy to try to lay this stuff on our Founding Fathers so that ignorant Lefties can put them down.
All of Hemings 6 children were trained in trades, sometimes at considerable expense.
None worked the fields.
They were also all freed on Jefferson's death and blended into white society.
Her descendants all have Jefferson DNA.
Randolph made only four recorded visits to Monticello (in September 1802, September 1805, May 1808, and sometime in 1814); none is related to Sally Hemings's conceptions.
You can believe that Randolph would ride across Virginia to knock up Hemings on unannounced visits...Or using Occams razor that Thomas Jefferson was sharing his bed with his deceased wife's half-sister.
They continue to repeat this lie. Sick of it.
Of course, it’s so easy to try to lay this stuff on our Founding Fathers so that ignorant Lefties can put them down.
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Yep, their obnoxious plan all along has been to discredit the Founding Fathers so that they can, by extension, discredit the Founding Documents.
Yup, that story was circulated to defend Clinton.
Here is a link to another point of view on the Jefferson DNA story that doesn’t support the conventional wisdom of today. https://jeffersondnastudy.com/
Here is a link speaking to the males with Jefferson DNA who were at Monticello and could have fathered some or all of the children attributed to Sally Hemmings. https://jeffersondnastudy.com/people/randolphs-sons/
Another dissenting point of view to the politically correct modern view on the Jefferson/Hemmings DNA “proof” -
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/true/primer.html
Agree. Only reason the whole lie was brought up again was because of Clinton’s affairs.
Worth a read for anyone intested:
“The timing of the Nature article’s publication—on the eve of the November 1998 Congressional elections and just weeks before the U.S. House of Representatives’ vote to impeach President Bill Clinton—was not purely coincidental. Professor Ellis’ accompanying article also noted, quite frankly, “Politically, the Thomas Jefferson verdict is likely to figure in upcoming impeachment hearings on William Jefferson Clinton’s sexual indiscretions, in which DNA testing has also played a role.”
“She was only eight when Jefferson last resided at Monticello and was mourning his wife’s death. Unless Brodie was suggesting that Jefferson consoled himself by having an affair with an eight-year-old child, the whole chain of suppositions is preposterous.”
” In fact, Jefferson was one of at least 25 adult male Jeffersons (male-line descendants of his paternal grandfather, Field Jefferson) who might have fathered Eston Hemings, passing on to him the Y chromosome with the distinctive Jeffersonian characteristics. Indeed, eight of these 25 Jefferson males lived within 20 miles (a half-day’s ride) of Monticello—including Thomas Jefferson’s younger brother, Randolph Jefferson, and Randolph’s five sons, who ranged in age from about 17 to 26 at the time of Eston’s birth.”
“To my knowledge and that of others 60 years ago the paternity of these parties were admitted by others.” (Thomas Jefferson Randolph letter, c. 1874, University of Virginia Library.)
The “others” to whom Randolph referred were Peter and Samuel Carr, nephews of Thomas Jefferson (the sons of his sister Martha and his childhood friend Dabney Carr, whom he raised as if they were his own sons). James Parton, in his 1874 biography of Jefferson, quoted Jefferson’s grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph as telling fellow Jefferson biographer Henry S. Randall that “there was not the shadow of suspicion that Mr. Jefferson in this or any other instance had commerce with female slaves.” T. J. (Jeff) Randolph alleged that Sally Hemings was the mistress of Peter Carr, while Sally’s sister Betsey Hemings was the mistress of Peter’s brother, Samuel. (Letter from Henry S. Randall to James Parton, June 1, 1868, printed in Milton E. Flower, James Parton: The Father of Modern Biography, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1951, pp. 236-37.) Jeff Randolph also told Randall that he once confronted Peter and Samuel Carr over the matter (after a visitor at Monticello had left a newspaper with “insulting remarks about Mr. Jefferson’s mulatto children”), and that the Carr brothers tearfully confessed their guilt, with Peter saying, “Ar’nt you and I a couple of _____ pretty fellows to bring this disgrace on poor old uncle who has always fed us! We ought to be _____, by _____.”
A contemporary cartoon of Jefferson and Hemings.
Probably not an accurate depiction of her, she's described as almost white with straight black hair down her back.
She was 3/4 white, her mother was mulatto and her father was Jefferson's father in law.
For those of us who love a well made mac and cheese many thanks to James Hemings...
So...multiple nephews of Jefferson would ride for miles to bed Hemings and Jefferson would feel compelled to spend considerable money training them in trades and freeing them when they turned 21 (another expense) knowing that only his nephews could be the father of her bastards?
Or Hemings affair with Jefferson began in Paris in 1789 and she returned with him with a promise that their children would be freed when they turned 21 and instead of her remaining in France where slavery had been outlawed in the French Revolution.
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