Science Reference Guides
Presidential Food:
Selected Resource Guide
Science Reference Section
Science, Technology & Business Division
Library of Congress
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TITLES
General Interest
Cannon, Poppy, and Patricia Brooks. The Presidents’ cookbook: practical recipes from George Washington to the present. New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1968. 545 p.
TX715.C218 <SciRR>
Ervin, Janet Halliday. The White House cookbook.
Chicago, Follett Pub. Co., 1964. 510 p.
TX715.E715
Famous White House recipes. New York, Paradyme Pub., 2000. 199 p.
Favorite recipes of presidents from Washington to Clinton.
TX715.F19484 2000
Gillette, F. L. The presidential cook book. Chicago, New York, The Werner Company, c1895. 440 p.
TX715.G486
Gillette, F. L. The White House cook book: a comprehensive cyclopedia of information for the home, containing cooking, toilet and household recipes, menus, dinner-giving, table etiquette, care of the sick, health suggestions, facts worth knowing, etc. Chicago, New York, The Saalfield Publishing Company, c1900. 590 p.
TX715.G482 1900
Jones, Robert. The Presidents’ own White House cookbook. Edited by Melanie H. De Proft. Chicago, Culinary Arts Institute, 1972. 110 p.
TX715.J82 1972
Klapthor, Margaret Brown. The First Ladies cook book: favorite recipes of all the Presidents of the United States. New Presidential ed. New York, Parents’ Magazine Enterprises, 1982. 238 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
TX715.K628 1982 <SciRR>
Klapthor, Margaret Brown. Official White House china: 1789 to the present. 2nd ed. With additions and revisions by Betty C. Monkman, William G. Allman, and Susan Gray Detweiler. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1999. 303 p. Bibliography: p. 193-200.
NK4427.W3K55 1999 <MrrAlc>
Landau, Barry H. The president’s table: two hundred years of dining and diplomacy. New York, Collins, c2007. 292 p.
Bibliography: p. 288-290.
E176.1.L244 2007
Nesbitt, Victoria Henrietta Kugler.
The Presidential cookbook; feeding the Roosevelts and their guests.
Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1951. 246 p.
TX715 .N505
Rysavy, François, and Frances Spatz Leighton. A treasury of White House cooking. New York, Putnam, 1972. 352 p. TX731.R88
Salomon, Sarah Hood. Politics & pot roast: an unofficial, unauthorized & completely unclassified cookbook. Albany, TX, Bright Sky Press, c2006. 208 p.
Bibliography: p. 200-203.
TX714.S23 200
Smith, Marie D. Entertaining in the White House. Washington, Acropolis Books, 1967. 320 p.
Bibliography: p. 302-312.
TX731.S53
Sommer, Beulah Munshower, and Pearl Dexter. Tea with presidential families. Scotland, CT, published and distributed by Olde English Tea Co., c1999. 96 p.
Bibliography: p. 96.
E176.1.S692 1999
Young, Bev. Presidential cookies: cookie recipes of the Presidents of the United States. 2nd ed. Sacramento, CA, Presidential Pub., c2005. 168 p.
TX772.Y65 2005
White House history: journal of the White House Historical Association. White House kitchens and cooking. Washington, The Association, 2007. 90 p. (White House history, no. 20, spring 2007)
F204.W5W64 no. 20
Partial contents: Kitchen past: thoughts on open hearth cooking for the Presidents.--A look at the White House kitchen, by Lydia Barker Telerick.--My White House years, by Roland Mesnier.--Preparation of the menu for the Prince of Wales dinner in 2005, by Cristeta Comerford.--A bit of architectural history comes in from the cold, by William G. Altman.--White House wines, by Daniel Shanks.--Home cooking in the White House, by Barbara Haber.
Individual Presidents
Baldrige, Letitia. In the Kennedy style: magical evenings in the Kennedy White House. Menus and recipes by White House Chef René Verdon. New York : Doubleday, c1998. 144 p.
TX737.B38 1998
Connolly, Neil, and Elizabeth Benedict. In the Kennedy kitchen: recipes and recollections
of a great American family. New York, DK, c2007. 255 p.
TX715.2.N48C645 2007
“Coolidge-country” cookbook: early recipes of the Coolidge family, their Plymouth Notch, Vermont neighbors and friends. Edited by Kathleen E. Donald and John Almon Waterhouse. Plymouth, VT, Friends of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, c1988. 96 p.
TX715.C7862 1988
De Guzman, Ariel. The Bush family cookbook. New York, Scribner, c2005. 308 p.
TX715.D28 2005 |
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Dining at Monticello: in good taste and abundance. Edited by Damon Lee Fowler. Charlottesville, VA, Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., 2005. 202 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
TX715.D58422 2005
Dyer, Ceil. The Carter family favorites cookbook. New York, Delacorte Press, c1977. 244 p.
TX715.D9773
Eisenhower Medical Center Auxiliary Cookbook Committee. Five-star favorites: recipes from friends of Mamie and Ike. New York, Golden Press, 1974. 272 p.
TX715.E35 1974
Haber, Barbara. Home Cooking in the FDR White House. In her From Hardtack to Home Fries: an uncommon history of American cooks and meals. New York, Free Press, c2002. 244 p.
TX360.U6H33 2002 <SciRR>
Hailman, John R. Thomas Jefferson on wine. Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2006. 457 p.
Bibliography: p. 431-437.
TP547.J44H36 2006
Haller, Henry, and Virginia Aronson. The White House family cookbook. New York, Random House, c1987. 441 p.
Bibliography: p. 426-427.
TX715.H179 1987
Henry Haller, Executive White House Chef, 1966-1987.
Jaffray, Elizabeth. White House menus and recipes. In her Secrets of the White House. New York, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1927. p. 133-200.
F204.W5J2
White House Housekeeper from the days of Taft to Coolidge.
The James K. Polk cookbook. Columbia, TN, James K. Polk Memorial Auxiliary, c1978. 254 p.
TX715.J29
Jetton, Walter, with Arthur Whitman. Walter Jetton’s LBJ barbecue cook book. New York, Pocket Books,1965. 77 p.
TX840.B3J4
Jones, Evan. Another debt to Jefferson. In his American food: the gastronomic story. 3rd ed. Woodstock, NY, Overlook Press, 1990. p. 34-43.
TX715.J76 1990
Kimball, Marie Goebel. Thomas Jefferson’s cook book. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2003, c1976. 122 p.
TX715.K478 2003 <SciRR> |
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Leaves from the Wilson family cook book. In The economy administration cook book. Edited by Susie Root Rhodes and Grace Porter Hopkins. Hammond, IN, W. B. Conkey Company, c1913. p. 27-51.
TX715.R48
Martha Washington’s Booke of cookery. Transcribed by Karen Hess. New York, Columbia University Press, 1981.
518 p.
Bibliography: p. 469-489.
TX705.M368 <SciRR Desk>
Mesnier, Roland, and Christian Malard. All the presidents’ pastries: twenty-five years in the White House, a memoir. Paris, Flammarion; London, Thames & Hudson distributor, c2007. 343 p.
TX649.M48A3 2007
Translated from the French.
Roland Mesnier, Executive White House Pastry Chef, 1979-2004.
Lee, Ping-quan. To a president’s taste: being the reminiscences and recipes of Lee Ping Quan, ex-president’s steward on the presidential yacht, U.S.S. Mayflower, as told to Jim Miller. Emmaus, PA, Rodale Press, 1939. 278 p. TX715.L465
Chief Steward to Presidents Harding and Coolidge.
Includes representative menus.
Provisions & politics: recipes honoring First Lady Sarah Childress Polk from the James K. Polk Memorial Association. Columbia, TN, James K. Polk Memorial Association, c2003. 192 p.
TX714.P8 2003
Rothman, Hal K. A slice of real America: showcasing the ranch during the presidency. In his LBJ's Texas White House: "Our Heart's Home." College Station, Texas A&M University Press, c2001. Chapter 7.
E847.2R68 2001
Also available online at:
http://www.nps.gov/archive/lyjo/Ourheartshome/index.htm
Russoli, Edward, and Candace Russoli. Dwight D. Eisenhower: general, president and cook. Allentown, PA, Benedettini Books, c1990. 119 p.
E836.R825 1990
Rysavy, François, and Frances Spatz Leighton. White House chef. New York, Putnam, 1957. 286 p.
TX731.R9
Sangamon County historical cookbook: a taste of Lincoln’s era. 4th ed. Springfield, IL, I. E. R. C. Production, 2002.
1 v.
TX714.S2825 2002
A compilation of recipes from 1838-1887 with stories and facts by and about Lincoln
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Scheib, Walter, and Andrew Friedman. White House chef: eleven years, two presidents, one kitchen. Hoboken, NJ, J. Wiley, c2007. 327 p.
Bibliography: p. 303-305.
TX731.S292 2007
Executive White House Chef, 1994-2005.
Schifando, Peter, and J. Jonathan Joseph. Entertaining at the White House with Nancy Reagan. New York, William Morrow, c2007. 223 p.
Bibliography: p. 222-223.
E878.R43S35 2007
Statesmen’s dishes; and how to cook them: Practical autographic recipes by Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, and more than two hundred other women prominent in official and social life at the national capital. Washington, The National Tribune, 1890. 222 p.
TX715.S797 <Bitting Coll>
“The Taste is in my mouth a little...”: Lincoln’s victuals and potables. Compiled and edited by Wayne C. Temple. Mahomet, IL, Mayhaven Pub., c2004. 702 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
TX715.T21265645 2004 <SciRR>
Includes facsim. of 1843 ed. of Directions for cookery, in its various branches, by
Miss Leslie.” p. 209-676.
Verdon, René. The White House chef cookbook. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1968, c1967. 287 p.
TX715.V43
Executive White House Chef, 1961-1965.
For Younger Readers
Larkin, Tanya. What was cooking in Dolley Madison’s White House? New York, Powerkids Press, c2001. 24 p. (Cooking throughout American history)
TX715.L31824 2001
Larkin, Tanya. What was cooking in Edith Roosevelt’s White House? New York, Powerkids Press, c2001. 24 p. (Cooking throughout American history)
TX714.L36 2001
Murphy, Frank. Thomas Jefferson’s feast. New York, Random House, 2003. 48 p.
E332.79.M87 2003 |
![Photo: Eleanor Roosevelt cutting a very large layer cake decorated with flags an bows.](images/rooseveltcake.jpg)
Eleanor Roosevelt cutting birthday cake. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. |
Related Titles
Anderson, Barbara. Karnack, its recipes, landmarks & memories: birthplace of former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson. Collierville, TN, Fundcraft Pub., 2000. 64 p.
TX715.A56615 2000
Clifford, Marny. Washington cookbook. New
York, E. P. Dutton, 1972. 541 p.
TX715.C635 1972
Fields, Alonzo. My 21 years in the White House. New York, Coward-McCann, c1961. 223 p.
F204.W5F5
Harbury, Katherine E. Colonial Virginia’s cooking dynasty. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, c2004.
479 p.
Bibliography: p. 445-457.
TX715.H258 2004 <SciRR>
McCreary, Donna D. Lincoln’s table: Victorian recipes from Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois to the White House. Zionsville, IN, Guild Press of Indiana, c2000. 107 p.
Bibliography: p. 104-105.
TX715.M474314 2000
Randolph, Mary. The Virginia house-wife. With historical notes and commentaries by Karen Hess. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, c1984. 370 p.
Bibliography: p. 301-321.
TX715 .R215 1984 <SciRR>
"A facsimile of the first edition, 1824, along with additonal material from the editions of 1825 and 1828, thus presenting a complete text."
Sgubin, Marta, and Nancy Nicholas. Cooking for madam: recipes and reminiscences from the home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. New York, Scribner, c1998. 224 p.
TX714.S49 1998
West, J. B., and Mary Lynn Kotz. Upstairs at the White House: my life with the First Ladies. New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, c1973. 381 p.
Bibliography: p. 369-371.
E176.2.W47 1973
Chief Usher of the White House, 1941-1969.
Zanger, Mark. The American history cookbook. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 2003. 459 p.
Bibliography: p. 433-438.
TX715.Z36 2003
Representative Articles
Bullock, Helen Duprey. Dining with the presidents. The American home, v. 67, Nov. 1964: 58-74.
NA7100.A44
Carpenter, Frank G. The presidents as gastronomers. Lippincott’s monthly magazine, v. 38, Dec. 1886: 67 (11p.).
Microfilm 05422 no. 324-340 AP
Cordon bleu White House, from a guest who went behind the scenes. The Economist, v. 227, Apr. 13, 1968: 26. HG11.E2
Fawcett, Waldon. The White House kitchen. American kitchen magazine, v. 16, Mar. 1902:207-210.
TX1.E8
The First Lady’s favorite menus and recipes. Redbook, v. 117, Aug. 1961: 50-57, 88.
Includes menus and recipes from Jacqueline Kennedy.
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Food fit for a king - or president: recipes of White House chef Henry Haller. House & garden, v. 153, Nov. 1981: 58-59. NA7100.H6
Food fit for a president: J. K. Polk’s Southern favorites. The Ladies’ home journal, v. 99, May 1982: 48-56.
AP2.L135
Hatch, Peter. Thomas Jefferson’s favorite vegetables. Twinleaf journal, Jan. 2000.
http://www.twinleaf.org/articles/vegetables.html
Home circle: at the White House, domestic life of President Arthur. Ohio farmer, v. 62, Aug. 12, 1882: 90.
S1.O35
Kimball, Marie. Feast days at Monticello. McCall’s, v. 83, Nov. 1955: 42-47.
TT500.M2
Pomeroy, R. F. Mrs. Johnson talks about her love for the White House. Redbook, v. 127, July 1966: 72-83.
Includes recipes.
AP2.R2829
Straithmore, Muriel. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is gifted in the art of cooking. Table talk, v. 28, March 1913: 121-124. Includes recipes.
TX1.T3
Thomas, Katherine Elwes. Two famous White House recipes. Good housekeeping magazine, v. 53, July 1911: 109-112.
TX1.G7
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson’s Recipe for Pedernales River Chili, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/FAQs/Recipes/chili.asp
Recipes from Famous Americans, American Recipes, USA.gov
http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/Health/Recipes.shtml
Theodore Roosevelt’s Favorite Foods, The Theodore Roosevelt Association
http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/favorite%20foods.htm
Tour of the White House Kitchen
- A Cspan video with White House Executive Chef, Christeta Comerford.
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=282865-1
Truman’s Food Preferences, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/trumanfile/foodprefs.htm
The White House Cook Book, at Feeding America: the Historic American Cookbook Project, Michigan State University
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/index.html
The White House Historical Association
http://www.whitehousehistory.org/index.html
White House Holiday Recipes, 1996, 1997, 1998, National Archives & Records
Administration
http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/Holidays/Recipes.html
http://clinton4.nara.gov/textonly/WH/Holidays/1997/Recipes.html
http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/Holidays/1998/recipes.html
White House Menus. In Heinz Bender, Executive Pastry Chef of the White House Collection. Culinary Arts Museum, Johnson & Wales University.
http://www.culinary.org/collector/bender/menu/menu.htm
Alison P Kelly, December 2008
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