A review by bookwormmichelle
Thomas Jefferson's Creme Brulee: How a Founding Father and His Slave James Hemings Introduced French Cuisine to America by Thomas J. Craughwell

4.0

This was an interesting enough little book, but not as indepth as I was hoping. Not a lot about actual cooking techniques, only a few recipes mentioned, and despite the subtitle, almost nothing about either creme brulee or James Hemings. I know there probably weren't many sources on a slave of the period, but then don't put him in the subtitle. There was actually more in the book on the French Revolution than there was either actual cooking information or information on Hemings. So it was a little disappointing there.