“Jefferson was elected President by Congress ... This Thanksgiving, before you tuck in to a heaping bowl of macaroni and cheese, or scoop some ice cream onto your pumpkin pie, McElveen asks ...

Thomas Jefferson was undoubtedly a busy fellow ... One thing he's sometimes credited with, however, is either inventing ...

During the Revolutionary War, Thomas Jefferson went to France. He also took his enslaved cook, James Hemings, who studied cooking there. Hemings brought macaroni and cheese to America, and ...

We can thank James Hemings, a man enslaved by Thomas Jefferson, for bringing the accompaniment to American tables. Macaroni and cheese as we know it dates back to Roman times. The earliest found ...

Baked macaroni and cheese is a quintessential Southern side ... with today can be attributed to James Hemings, President ...

According to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and America's third president loved mac and cheese — though Jefferson referred to all ...

Mac and cheese is a comfort food that rarely fails ... a few decades before President Thomas Jefferson served it at a state dinner in 1802, Smithsonian Magazine has written. In 1914, the J.L ...

As one of the United States’ most beloved dishes, macaroni and cheese has a long history. Centuries ago, James Hemings, Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved chef, learned how to prepare the dish while ...