The Enslaved Chefs At Monticello Who Created American Cuisine

The Sporkful

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🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This week in honor of July 4th, we’re exploring an important part of American history – the contributions of enslaved Black chefs, whose work influences American cuisine to this day. In 1784, Thomas Jefferson brought the enslaved chef James Hemings, brother of Sally Hemings, with him to France to train under the French culinary masters of the day.

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0:00.0	This is this Borkfall. It's not for foodies, it's for eaters. I'm Dan Pashman.
0:07.4	Each week on our show we obsess about food to learn more about people.
0:11.0	And we're coming to you live from the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello in Charlottesville,
0:15.6	Virginia.
0:18.6	This week in honor of July 4th we're exploring an important part of American history.
0:28.8	The contributions have enslaved black chefs, whose work influences American cuisine
0:33.3	to this day.
0:34.3	And to do that we're traveling to a real plantation.
0:38.3	This live show you're going to hear took place under a big tent on the lawn at Thomas
0:41.7	Cheverson's Monticello.
0:43.6	The Heritage Harvest Festival has food vendors, farmers, artisans, seed exchange, overall
0:49.0	about 2,000 people.
0:50.9	It's a joyous backdrop for what would be a day of conflicting emotions.
0:57.9	Monticello is right behind you all. I can see it behind you.
1:04.7	We're under a tent. It's beautiful. There's not a cloud in the sky.
1:08.6	It's a glorious day to be here.
1:10.6	Thomas Cheverson grew up on one of the largest tobacco plantations in Virginia.
1:14.4	And when he was 21 he inherited thousands of acres of land, including this little
1:20.6	hilltop that was always his favorite boyhood haunt called Monticello, little mountain.
1:26.4	And that's where we are right now.
1:28.5	The process of building and rebuilding Monticello, this home, was his obsession.
1:34.5	He spent decades.
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