For 5 presidents, former White House Chef says that first family is ‘regular people’ at home

Washington: Christeta Commerford, a long -time executive chef of the White House, who recently retired after about three decades after preparing food for five presidents and their guests, says that the first families are “only regular people” when they are at home in private living areas of the executive mansion. “This is not what you see on the news,” he told the Associated Press in an interview. Preparation of food from the first families was one of the many cook responsibilities of Commerford. The food will be prepared mostly in the main kitchen, then finished in the residence kitchen on the second floor. “At the end of the day, when you eat the family’s food upwards, they are just regular people at home. They just want a good food. They want to sit with their family,” he said. “If they have children, they eat together. And just to see that on the daily basis, this is not what you see on the news. “This is the other side of them that we get to see,” he said. The President as Foodis Commerford, who in July 2024, has the longest shell serving his apron and chef to about 20 years later and about three decades on kitchen employees, after nearly three decades, the longest serving chef in the history of the White House. Bill Clinton, George W. during his tenure. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden were chaired. Each of the five families contacted separate food to work on food and alcohol recently on food and alcohol. He was asked if he would describe any President as “real food”. Clinton liked healthy food, said Commerford. Then-Lady Hillary Clinton first hired American Executive Chef, Walter Skib, and avoided serving heavy sauces and creams in the kitchen. He said, “I learned a lot” about South-Western recipes from Bush, former Texas Governor who preferred tex-Mex food. “We made thousands of many for Christmas,” he said about the popular Mexican food of a corn flour wrapped in a corn husk and was boiled until it was cooked. The ideas of Vegetable Garden Michelle Obama to Cummerford began when she was mainly promoting healthy food for children. “We used the garden like our backbone for our menu development,” she said. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump “very, very classic eaters,” she said. Mrs. Trump “loved Italian food, so we do pasta, but light ones.” Cummerford did not comment on President Trump’s food options, but he is known as a well -served stake served with ketchup and fast food. Jill Biden was the first Italian American first woman, and the kitchen “a lot of Italian food, as well as, because she loved Italian food.” Overall, “This is different for each family,” Commerford said, “But my job as a chef is to execute their style, their choice and their preferences.” 54 State Dinner A Black-Tye State Dinner is the highest diplomatic honor of the US Reserve for its close colleagues. Comerford presided over more than 54 of these grand cases including France and Australia during Trump’s first term. Sometimes, the guest chef was brought for help. State Dinner gives the presidents an opportunity to bring hundreds of guests in the world of government, politics and other industries for one evening, in which three-curves food, decoration and entertainment are designed to help foreign leaders dazzling foster relations. The first woman’s staff and the social secretary usually have about two months to pull one together. Commerford said that his team started by researching the choice and dislike of the visiting leader, then he used information to create a menu using the best of American food during the recognition of the nuances from the country. She will develop at least three different menu. Then the first decision for the First Lady tasted to make a final decision. Career Commerford of 62 -year -old Commerford started a salad bar at the hotel in Chicago Airport before working as a chef at restaurants in Austria and Washington. The White House executive chef used Skibb for a temporary gig in 1994 to prepare a state dinner for the newly elected President Nelson Mandela of South Africa. Scheib then hired her as an assistant chef in 1995, and made her successful a decade later, which became the first woman and the first person of color, permanently organizing the position of the executive chef. Commerford is a natural American citizen born in the Philippines. Her husband, John Cummerford, is also a chef, and she credits her for renunciation of her career to appear for her daughter to thrive in it. His daughter is a pastry chef. When Commerford retired, assistant chef Tommy Kupradradit, whose parents are from Thailand, were named interim executive chefs. Melania Trump, who previously worked with Cummerford in Trump administration, has not named a successor. How she succeeded as the top house of the White House as Commerford, she said that she managed everything with “a lot of prayers”, often during his hours, said during the morning drive at the White House, but also from being versatile, humble, chaos and being able to have faith in himself and his team. “One thing with cooking in the White House, you don’t just eat food,” he said. “You have to know how to cook eggs and breakfast. You have to know to cook the smash and cook.” It also helps to remember that the job is about the family. “There is no ego in it,” said Commerford. White House Pakistani History White House Cook History includes Asians from China, Japan, Philippines, South Korea and Thailand, as far as the 19th century, according to Adrian Miller and Debora Chang, according to a new book co-writer, “cooking for the taste of the President: Asian Heritage Chef in White House History.” The most intensified its skills through service in the US Army. Prior to Commerford, Pedro Udo, a Philipino trained in the US Army, was the first Asian Heritage Chef to run the White House kitchen after being promoted from Meat Chef in June 1957 to Head Chef. He prepared food for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, and for Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in September 1959 during the Cold War that year. But her term ended after less than four years, when the new first woman, Jacqueline Kennedy hired French chef Rene Wordon in early 1961. Miller said that the book offers a “unique window” to the presidency. He told AP in an interview, “We take a look at the presidents, but the presidents also took a look at the Asian American life, which was probably not before.” “And I think you know, for the presidents who decided to open the window and got more information about those who were providing them through amazing food, I think our nation is better for them.”