[Sca-cooks] OOP - Selecting the new White House Executive Chef

[Stefan li Rous]

Samia asked:

<<< Am I the only one who thinks this does not belong on this list? >>>

Kingstaste wrote:
An interesting article in today's Yahoo news:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081124/ap_on_re_us/obama_chef
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You may not be the only one. However, I disagree. Being the White  
House chef is probably a very close approximation of the life of a  
medieval chef.  Both are/were responsible for putting on formal,  
state dinners. Both are/were expected to help forward the diplomacy  
and politics of their employer by creating spectacular dinners, as  
well as the daily meals of the household of their employer. Both also  
have to handle the logistics of the kitchen and the overseeing of  
often large staffs.

Both also have to be aware of and plan for the peculiarities of their  
clients. It would have been bad in period to serve meat on a fish  
day, just as it would be for the Presidential Chef to serve roast  
pork to the Israeli ambassador.

Stefan
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