THE HISTORY CHEF!

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025

How Food and Drink Fueled the American Revolution

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So did you know that sugar, coffee, tea and other basic foods played a role in some of the key events that led to the American Revolution...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Andrew Johnson New Year's Day Hoppin John

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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...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

A Charles Dickens Christmas Dinner

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One of the most famous guests to visit the White House during John Tyler’s presidency was the great English writer, Charles Dickens. Upon h...
Friday, December 6, 2024

Franklin D Roosevelt, Pearl Harbor and World War II

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On February 19, 1942, two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt  signed  Executive Order 9066  which led to the...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

A Brief History of the Presidential Turkey Pardon

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There are competing claims as to when the White House tradition of "pardoning" a Thanksgiving turkey began. Some say it dates b...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

George Bush, Barack Obama and the Politics of Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches

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George Bush's memoir Decision Points has been described by the New York Times as "an autobiography focused around 'the most ...
Monday, November 18, 2024

Woodrow Wilson, the Sinking of the Lusitania and Food Blockades During World War I

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On May 7, 1915, a German submarine torpedoed the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania en route from New York to England. Attacked without wa...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

The Election of 1824 and Andrew Jackson Inaugural Orange Whiskey Punch

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When John Quincy Adams took the Oath of Office, it was under a dark cloud of controversy. The Election of 1824 was a bitterly contested ...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

A Brief History of Halloween and Trick-or-Treating

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Trick-or-treating has been a popular American tradition for more than a century, but its origins remain unclear. Ancient Celtic festivals,...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Babe Ruth, Grover Cleveland, and the Debate Over the Name of the Baby Ruth Bar

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So did you know that Grover Cleveland's name is associated with a long-standing debate over the name of the Baby Ruth bar? Some people ...
Friday, August 9, 2024

Watergate and Richard Nixon Family Style Meatloaf

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At 2:30 a.m. on June 17, 1972, five men, one of whom was a former employee of the CIA, were  arrested  in what was later described as an ...
Friday, July 26, 2024

The Mona Lisa and Leonardo Da Vinci Saffron Risotto

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How Leonardo da Vinci used rudimentary pigments in 1503 to create such subtle shadows and light on the Mona Lisa has long baffled art his...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Abraham Lincoln Kentucky Corncakes

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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...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

James Garfield, the Pythagorean Theorem, and the Founding Father of Vegetarianism

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As a lawyer, professor, and duly ordained minister, James Garfield is the only president to have discovered a novel proof of the Pythagore...
Sunday, June 16, 2024

LBJ, JFK, and a Brief History of Fathers Day

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Some historians say that the origins of Father’s Day can be traced to a young woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd, who reportedly came...
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Suzy Evans, J.D., Ph.D.
Hi! I'm a literary agent, attorney and author who holds a Ph.D. in history from UC Berkeley. My books include MACHIAVELLI FOR MOMS (Simon & Schuster) and Forgotten Crimes: the Holocaust and People with Disabilities. I'm also a ghostwriter for a #1 New York Times bestselling author with more than 25 million copies in print and my work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications, including USA Today, Newsweek, Parade, Forbes, McSweeneys.com, ScaryMommy.com and The Sunday (London) Times. Welcome!!
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