First Ladies Often Forge Food Trends, But Melania's Menu Is A Mystery
8 years, 3 months ago

First Ladies Often Forge Food Trends, But Melania's Menu Is A Mystery

NPR  

First Ladies Often Forge Food Trends, But Melania's Menu Is A Mystery toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images In a photo for GQ earlier this year, Melania Trump sat in a white dress at a white table posed with a fork and spoon, twirling a thick platinum rope necklace in a bowl like a piece of bucatini. "It turned out that Mrs. Clinton's favorite meat is lamb," Scheib writes in his book White House Chef. "She came into the White House with a plan to make that real sense of diversity and regional American food reflected in the nation's house." "The White House kitchen had become a more mundane place than I ever imagined it could be," Scheib writes.

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What does a busy president want to eat? This White House chef has the answer
6 months, 2 weeks ago

What does a busy president want to eat? This White House chef has the answer

NPR  

What does a busy president want to eat? This White House chef has the answer toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images You know that old line, "Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are"? So every now and then I’m, like, on the grill, and he's like, “Hey, is that smelling good right there.” Shapiro: …

White House chef retires after nearly 30 years, 1st woman and 1st person of color to have the job
8 months ago

White House chef retires after nearly 30 years, 1st woman and 1st person of color to have the job

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The White House’s executive chef has retired after nearly three decades of making meals and cooking up state dinners for five different presidents and their families. Cris Comerford is the first woman to hold the job, and is also the first person of color to be executive chef. “With all our hearts, Joe and I are filled with …

Female White House chef duo has dished up culinary diplomacy at state dinners for nearly a decade
10 months, 1 week ago

Female White House chef duo has dished up culinary diplomacy at state dinners for nearly a decade

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A house-cured smoked salmon, red grapefruit, avocado and cucumber starter. While President Joe Biden and his guest of honor at a White House state dinner chew over foreign policy, the female chef duo of Cris Comerford and Susie Morrison take care of the culinary diplomacy. AP AUDIO: Female White House chef duo has dished up culinary diplomacy at …

Jill Biden hosts military chefs crowned ‘Chopped’ champs for guest stint in White House Navy Mess
1 year, 9 months ago

Jill Biden hosts military chefs crowned ‘Chopped’ champs for guest stint in White House Navy Mess

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — An Air Force chef and a Marine Corps chef, both crowned “Chopped” champions during Jill Biden ‘s appearance on a military-themed episode of the Food Network show, spent Friday whipping up lemon-herb scallops and osso buco in the White House Navy Mess. Air Force chef Opal Poullard, 37, and Marine Corps chef Dustin Lewis, 34, accepted the mission …

How food meets diplomacy in the White House
1 year, 11 months ago

How food meets diplomacy in the White House

Live Mint  

The United States welcomed South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife, Kim Keon Hee to their country this week. On Wednesday, First Lady Jill Biden hosted a state dinner for the South Korean president and his wife at the White House. Korean-American celebrity chef Edward Lee has conceptualised the menu along with White House’s executive chef Cris Comerford …

What the president’s diet says about America
8 years, 4 months ago

What the president’s diet says about America

CNN  

Editor’s Note: How do US presidents stay fit and active? “But he’s not the first one to like McDonald’s and Burger King and occasionally that wonderful Popeyes chicken,” said William Seale, a historian and journal editor with the White House Historical Association. After all, the eating habits of American presidents seem to mirror the ever-evolving diets of the American people, …

Lady iron chef and her White House kitchen confidential
8 years, 4 months ago

Lady iron chef and her White House kitchen confidential

Live Mint  

Cristeta Comerford, the 54-year-old Filipino-American head chef at the White House since 2005, resolutely refused to divulge details of US President Barack Obama’s breakfast menu. “You know, just normal breakfast at home.fruits, yogurt, a good omelette,” said Comerford, the first female head chef at the White House, measuring her words. Seventeen chefs from different countries exchanged recipes and pushed the …

The Obamas' first harvest
15 years, 8 months ago

The Obamas' first harvest

Salon  

It was harvest time for the first wave of crops from the local vegetable garden, so the kids who had helped plant it a few months earlier came back to visit recently. "We think that the jury is definitely still out," said Ferd Hofner, policy director at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, a Washington-based group that's pushing for more federal …

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