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

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.
Author
Miller, Adrian
Publication
  • Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Description
xvii, 261 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Biography.
  • History.
Note
  • "[I]ncludes twenty recipes"--Book jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
Sc E 17-923
ISBN
  • 9781469632537
  • 1469632535
LCCN
2016042812
OCLC
959965319
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
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-244) and index.
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc E 17-923
JFE 17-2813
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