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African American Presidential Cooks in Antebellum America - UNC Press Blog
In light of Black History Month's annual coinciding with Presidents Day, the following excerpt relevant to that reality is taken from The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas by Adrian Miller. “You know, the White House is really modeled after a plantation big house.” Chef Walter Scheib startled me when he said this during our first telephone conversation on 12 October 2010. It wasn’t because of concerns over the accuracy and clarity of his statement but because he said it...
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