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Author:

Miller, Adrian, author.

Title:

The President's kitchen cabinet : the story of the African Americans who have fed our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas / Adrian Miller.

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xvii, 261 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Subject:

White House (Washington, D.C.)--Employees.
White House (Washington, D.C.)--History.
African American cooks--Biography.
Cooks--United States--Biography.
Presidents--United States--History.--History.
Presidents--United States--History.
White House (Washington, D.C.)
African American cooks.
Cooks.
Presidents--Staff.
Presidents.
Employees.
United States.
Biography.
History.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes twenty recipes. Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-244) and index.

Contents:

The key ingredients of presidential foodways -- Feeling at home : the White House steward and the evolution of presidential provisioning -- Bittersweet : African American presidential cooks in Antebellum America -- Semisweet : personal and professional presidential cooks after Emancipation -- Eating on the run : presidential foodways in motion -- Seeing through a glass darkly : African Americans and presidential drinkways -- Above measure : the future of African American presidential chefs.

Summary:

Award winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential food service as chefs, personal cooks, butlers, stewards, and servers for every First Family since George and Martha Washington. Miller brings together the names and words of more than 150 black men and women who played remarkable roles in unforgettable events in the nation's history.

ISBN:

1469632535
9781469632537

LCCN:

2016042812

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)