Posted Thu Jun 19, 2008, 1:10pm Subject: Thomas Jefferson
Some friends brought me back a mug from Monticello. In is is a card that describes Jefferson's love for coffee. It reads: In 1824 Thomas Jefferson deemed coffee "the favorite drink of the civilised world." Jefferson enjoyed the coffee houses of Williamsburg and Paris, and served coffee at the President's House, Poplar Forest, and Monticello. He preferred beans imported from the East and West Indies, and abhorred the "green" or unripe beans that were popular in America at that time. Jefferson estimated that a pound of coffee a day was consumed during his retirement. His cellar was stocked with unroasted beans in barrels weighing as much as 60 pounds. Small quantities of beans were roasted and ground in the Monticello kitchen, and then prepared according to the recipe of Adrien Petit, Jefferson's French maitre d'hotel: "On one measure of the coffee ground into meal pour three measures of boiling water. Boil it on hot ashes mixed with coal till the meal disappears from the top, when it will be precipitated. Pour it three times through a flannel strainer. It will yield 2 1/3 measures of clear coffee."
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Posted Fri Jun 20, 2008, 8:03am Subject: Re: Thomas Jefferson
Thanks for sharing that.
Every now and then, often triggered by current events, we get a reminder of how brilliantly insightful the founding fathers were. The foresight required to produce a document like the Declaration of Independence and have it withstand the test of time continually blows me away.
His love for coffee is just reminds me even again how intelligent he was.
Peter
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