Virginia region of the Mid Atlantic (Geographic Keyword)
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Luxury Taxa: An Analysis of Macrobotanical Remains from Monticello’s First Kitchen (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cooking provides a glimpse into how peoples’ choices of native domesticates, wild, and luxury imported plant taxa played a prominent role in their diets and general foodways practices. Food reflects and helps constitute social class, gender roles, and cultural traditions; determines trade networks; and in some...