In the summer of 1802, guests at Thomas Jefferson’s table were served something almost nobody in Virginia had access to: ice cream, in July, in a state with no electricity and 95-degree heat. The refrigerator wouldn’t be patented for another twenty years. So how did a house on a Virginia mountaintop keep dessert frozen throughContinue reading “How Thomas Jefferson Preserved Food Before Refrigerators — And His Actual Ice Cream Recipe”