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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Adrian, author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Cookbooks (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White House (Washington, D.C.).

African American cooks--Biography.

African American cooks.

Cooks--United States--Biography.

Cooks.

History.

Employees.

Presidents.

United States.

Presidents--United States--Staff--History.

Presidents--United States--History.

Presidents--Staff.

White House (Washington, D.C.)--Employees.

White House (Washington, D.C.)--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Biography.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 261 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

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.

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.

Notes:

"This book was published with the assistance of the John Hope Franklin Fund of the University of North Carolina Presss."

"Designed by Richard Hendel."

"Set in Bulmer by Tseng Information Systems, Inc."

Contains list of African Americans, by presidential administration and position, who have had a hand in presidential food preparation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

9781469632537

1469632535

1469647672

9781469647678

OCLC:

959965319

Publisher Number:

99980031425