The President's White House Cook
Courtesy of The Library of Congress
An interesting tidbit about Great Depression era President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) and food is that he loved exotic chesses. He also had a rocky relationship with the white house cook during his four terms in office. She reportedly served him things he just did not like such as oatmeal on a daily basis for breakfast and broccoli at lunch or dinner which he detested. The kindhearted Roosevelt couldn’t muster the strength to fire her so instead after dinner he would send staff out to pick up take out food from a D. C. restaurant near the White House. For more on White House cooks, listen to my colleague Adrian Miller talk about his book on the topic.
