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Jacket illustrations: Front: newly remodeled White House kitchen, 1902 (courtesy Library of Congress); plate composition: © iStock.com/lolostock, © iStock.com/taratata, and © iStock.com/dwph; Gilbert Stuart, Portrait of George Washington’s Cook, ca. 1795–97, © 2016 Museo Thysssen-Bornemisza / Scala, Florence. On spine and back cover: Obama State Service Plate (courtesy White House Historical Association).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: 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.

Description: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016042812| ISBN 9781469632537 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469632544 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: African American cooks—Biography. | Cooks—United States—Biography. | White House (Washington, D.C.)—Employees. | Presidents—United States—Staff—History. | Presidents—United States—History. | White House (Washington, D.C.)—History.

Classification: LCCTX649.A1 M55 2017 | DDC 641.5092/2 [B] —dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016042812