THE HISTORY CHEF!

The opulent Gilded Age banquets that characterized the Grant White House were but a distant memory when James Garfield, a farmer’s son, m...

Published in 2011, George W. Bush's memoir Decision Points has been described by the New York Times as "an autobiography focused...

Despite the exigencies of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln took his entertaining duties at the White House seriously, and if the only extant ...

One of the most famous guests to dine at the White House during John Tyler’s presidency was the great English writer, Charles Dickens. Upon...

During Richard Nixon's administration, one of the first public signs of improved U.S.-China relations came on April 6, 1971, when the Am...

When she toured the White House kitchen in 1933, Henrietta Nesbitt , Eleanor Roosevelt's housekeeper, reportedly found cockroaches craw...

As a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, John Adams was one of the fiercest advocates of the Declaration of Independence . Contrary...

On the evening of July 7, 1976, President Gerarld Ford and his wife Betty hosted an elegant state dinner at the White House dinner in hono...

According to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd , George H.W. Bush has always had a "whopping appetite," but it isn't for...

So did you know that before he became president, George Washington ran a successful fishery in the Potomac River near his Mount Vernon hom...

Presiding over the nation during a time of great strife, James Buchanan is the only president who never had a wife. And while he dined ver...

Some historians say that the origins of Father’s Day in the United States can be traced to a young woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd,...

Civil War rations generally consisted of 12 ounces of pork or bacon or one pound of fresh or salt beef; beans or peas; rice or hominy; suga...

The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer on July 29, 1981 has been aptly described as one of the most celebrated spectacles of ...

Now please don't tell People magazine or TMZ, but Benjamin Harrison and his wife Caroline were reportedlty "corn-addicts," ...

So did you know that Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden at Monticello was one thousand feet long and contained more than 250 varieties...

Martha Washington’s Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats is a family cookbook that Martha compiled and used for fifty years. It conta...

Around 2:30 a.m. on June 17, 1972, five men, one of whom said he was a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency, were arrested i...

Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary were great animal lovers and allowed their four young sons to keep all sorts of pets on White House gr...

On November 10, 1940, a cute black Scottish terrier puppy arrived at the White House as a gift for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and...

Although historians don’t typically play the game of what ifs , it's hard to know if the United States could have won its independence...