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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2664
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 02:08 pm: | 
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18950467
Some kitchen stories are complicated — full of mystery and missing pieces — the truth hidden by time. No photographs to capture them, little historical record to go on. "Hercules and Hemings" is one of these stories. In this piece, Hidden Kitchens turns its focus to the president's kitchen and to some of the first cooks to feed the Founding Fathers — the enslaved chefs of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
...As we began to dig into the lives of Hercules and Hemings, the little-known stories of black cooks in the White House throughout history began to surface. Dolly Johnson cooked for President and Mrs. Harrison. Johnson had been the Harrisons' cook in Indianapolis and was "called to the White House sometime around 1890 to replace French chef, Madame Petronard," Conrad says.
Mary Campbell cooked for Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Harry and Margaret Truman brought Vietta Garr with them to the White House. Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson came to the White house with Zephyr Wright. Mrs. Johnson hired her when Wright was a home economics student at the historically black Wiley College in Texas. She cooked for the Johnsons for 27 years in Texas and Washington, D.C...
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 11575
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 11:51 am: |
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In keeping with the spirit of change, will Obama hire Rachel Ray to slave over a hot stove if he wins??  |
Yvettep
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Post Number: 2679
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 12:01 pm: |
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Maybe he'll hire Bill Clinton  |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 6326
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 02:47 pm: |
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They should have put ground glass in those peckerwoods' food. |
Yvettep
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Post Number: 2684
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 02:09 pm: |
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How do you know they didn't?... |
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