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☆ Cristeta Comerford, White House Chef to 5 Presidents, Retires
  + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Aishvarya Kavi | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Growing up in the Philippines, Cristeta Comerford helped her mother, a seamstress, cook for a household of more than a dozen. They were simple meals: rice, a vegetable and fish or chicken, sometimes with extra potatoes to stretch the meal. You should go to Cordon Bleu and be a chef,” Ms. Comerford, who goes by Cris or “Cheffie,” said in an interview on Thursday. She never did go to culinary school, but she became the first woman and person of color to serve as White House executive chef. Ms. Comerford, 61, retired last week, having cooked for five presidents and their families, charted out more than 50 state dinners, and overseen a renovation of the White House kitchen that was built more than a century ago.
Persons: Cristeta Comerford, ‘ Cris, ” Ms, Comerford, Cris, “, ” Organizations: White House, House Locations: Philippines
☆ Groundbreaking executive White House chef steps down
  + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Betsy Klein | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
CNN —White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford has retired after nearly three decades cooking for five commanders-in-chief and their families, a White House official tells CNN. Comerford cooked for America’s first families over 29 years, including the Clintons, Bushes, Obamas, Trumps and Bidens, overseeing all White House cuisine from family meals to state dinners in the executive chef role. Her last day was Friday, the White House official said. “To be a White House chef, it’s really your temperance that really counts for a lot. In 2005, she was one of about 450 applicants for the executive chef role, which included what she described as a final “cook-off” round.
Persons: CNN —, Cristeta Comerford, Comerford, Clinton, Laura Bush, “, Chef Cris, Joe, ”, Jill Biden, Susie Morrison, it’s, Caesar, cobb Organizations: CNN, CNN — White House, White, White House Locations: White, Pennsylvania, United States, Manila, Chicago, Washington, DC, Vienna, Austria
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