THE HISTORY CHEF!

At the end of the Civil War, the South lay in ruins. Southern plantations and entire cities had been destroyed during the war. Without food...

In The Prairie Years, the great American poet and biographer Carl Sandburg told a story about Abraham Lincoln and gingerbread, a story th...

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...

The menu for Ulysses S. Grant’s second Inaugural Ball reflects the opulence of the Gilded Age. A New York Times article dated March 5, 18...

When James Madison and his wife Dolley moved into the President's House, the room that Thomas Jefferson had used as an office became t...

So did you know that Thomas Jefferson was the first president to serve Macaroni and Cheese at the White House? Of course, the dish that J...

So this story is kind of repulsive and certainly won't make you crave a juicy hamburger or steak, but it's a part of food history s...

So did you know that during James Monroe’s presidency, many canals were built, mostly in the northeastern states? One of the most famous wa...

In 1854, President Franklin Pierce signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act , which outraged many northerners who believed he was supporting slavery ...

So did you know that in the fall of 1772, when Thomas Jefferson was newly married and had a one-month old child, he purchased a family pet....

So did you know that the Teddy Bear was invented in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt ? According to historians, it all began when Roo...

According to an article in the Dining & Wine section of the New York Times , Bill Clinton has somehow become "an arbiter of int...

Having witnessed the chaos of Andrew Jackson’s "levees" first hand, Martin Van Buren prohibited all food or drink from public rec...

As president, Chester Arthur hosted many elegant state dinners and often stayed up socializing with his guests as late as two or three o’c...

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 October 5, 1947, Harry Truman made the first televised presidential address from the White House. In it, he asked Americans to reduce th...

Okay, so this story is kind of repulsive and certainly won't make you hungry, but it's a part of food history so here goes: In the ...

So did you know that Hasty Pudding is mentioned in a verse in the patriotic song YANKEE DOODLE DANDY? A popular British song, its origins ca...

So did you know that the song “Hail to the Chief" did not originate as a salute to the president? The phrase dates back to a poem by S...

So this story is kind of repulsive and certainly won't make you hungry for a juicy hamburger or steak, but it's a part of food hist...

When Franklin D. Roosevelt invited England’s King George VI for a visit to the United States in June of 1939, the significance of the invi...

When George Washington was inaugurated in 1789, some of the most pressing questions facing the new nation involved social manners and etiqu...

As devout Quakers, Richard Nixon’s parents taught their four sons patience, courage, and determination, traits that Nixon would draw stren...

When Andrew Jackson was inaugurated on March 4, 1829, it was like "the homecoming of a hero" as twenty thousand of his loyal sup...

In November of 1960, John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon in one of the closest and most dramatic presidential elections in American his...

Although kind and well-liked, Warren Harding is often ranked as the worst president in American history, and even he admitted to close fri...

At the end of the Civil War, the South lay in ruins. Southern plantations and entire cities had been destroyed during the war. Without food...

Benjamin Harrison’s presidency began with a dramatic, three-day centennial commemoration of George Washington’s inauguration as the first ...