his second book, the president's kitchen cabinet -- "the president's kitchen cabinet: the story of the african americans who have fed our first families" was published on president's day 2017. let's welcome our office. [applause] >> he is a friend of mine. good morning. it is great to be here at the roosevelt presidential library to talk about this subject was i want to tell you about my background, how i came to write this book on african american presidential shifts. instead of my typical presentation where i would go through different cooks i will focus on those who cooked for president roosevelt. there are some great stories there. i was born and raised in denver, colorado and as you heard i wrote a history of soul food and given where i grew up, immediately on that subject, right? yes. i have two southern parents, my mom from chattanooga, tennessee, my mom from arkansas but this is the food i grew up reading and when i was researching that book on the history of soul food african-americans started popping up in my research who cooked for the president. once i finish that book if i

but daisy bonner was very moved by his death if you ever go to georgia and the kitchen area she wrote on the wall dc bonner cut to a first and last meal for the of president it was encased in plastic. she wanted to be known as the first lady of presidential cooking she wanted to open a museum but died before she could put that together. i also want touche to talk to about drinks but fdr embraced the drinking culture i talk about wine and cocktails and a one to read about eggnog. from lillian rogers park to give us is an insight out eggnog place apart. so speaking of liquid also a recipe of one of the other drinks. cocktail and highballs were served but the new year's eggnog was traditional the creamy mixture was prepared in the same way in the punch bowl was put before the president and then to give the same toast to the united states. so then they declared that president eisenhower made but the one that roosevelt had was also very strong so you can see a lot of very strong eggnog even at the present day and about the trump white house right now but what obama served would knock you o

pete, you got to get out of the kitchen. control the entire process, and you have to let other people do the work. and if you don't, this place will never grow. it will suffer forever. in order to scale this business and sell a lot more candy, we're gonna need a new retail location with a lot more foot traffic. we're also gonna need a commercial kitchen that has room for staff, the proper equipment, and space for a lot more raw materials. i did this deal because i think the model is unique. the fact that you actually bring people in and you teach them how to make candy is something that i think separates us from everybody. with these classes generating over 500% margins each class, we should be doing these all the time. if we do three classes a day with 20 students in each class at $15 a head, we would be generating approximately $740 in gross profit per day. that's $5,180 per week, which equates to $270,000 per year. this business lost a little bit of money last year. but i want to try to get to $4 million, $5 million, $6 m

and you can't design a commercial kitchen if you've never worked in a commercial kitchen.'t design a restaurant if you've never served. so on these formal evenings that they would have, the apprentices were in charge of making the meals, serving the meals, uh, setting the, uh, tables. >> you have to understand what you're doing. and the best way to do it is just do it. the signature feel of taliesin west is desert intensified. >> he wanted taliesin west to feel like it had just grown out of the desert and it kind of had been here for all time. if you kind of look at these masonry walls, and you looked at the floor of the desert, and you just imagine tilting up the floor, that's what these walls represent. >> taliesin west is preserved as a national historic landmark. and members of the public arrive every day for guided tours. >> we have over 100,000 visitors a year that come through and get to experience this jewel that wright created in the sonoran desert. >> up next, i received an e-mail from a couple who's been trying to buy a home in a short sell, but getting the runa

we had an open kitchen. i built the that way.hat way i can see the customers and manage the restaurant at the same time. one day, when i served smoked salmon, normally we used brioche, then it came into my head, i will just cook the pizza dough with some onions. because smoked salmon and onions go well together. and i will put some cream, some fresh dill, and shallots on top. hot and cold goes well together. soft and crispy goes well together. a glass of champagne with that would be perfect. everybody tasted it. i sent it to all the people that i knew. they had never saw anything like that. haslinda: next on "high flyers" -- wolfgang: we never hear about them. ♪ ♪ haslinda: so, chef, whatever you do a google on wolfgang puck, the first thing that comes up is celebrity chef. the term celebrity chef is not one you want. wolfgang: absolutely not. i want to be known as a chef. i work in my restaurants. we have a lot of famous people come to our restaurants. i am in the service business. i like to make customers happy. "celebrity chef

the space originally was a kitchen. we're standing 4 feet above the original floor level. why that is because jefferson raises the floor level in 1809 after he builds the south wing and he turns this into a wash house when the larger kitchen was built to the east. and the amazing thing in this space, not just, you know, that it's this early and that it survives, but also that earlier kitchen survived large lly intrt under this great fill. it's got a lot of artifacts mixed into it. we think of fill pretty boring. but in this case all of trash that they're bring in with the dirt they're pulling from somewhere contains cultural materials that the archaeologists are able to find. amazing pieces of ceramic, pins and thimbles, toothbrush heads. just a lot of great artifacts that will give us a sense of how people lived on the mountaintop. well in addition to these great artifacts what they also found was evidence of this first kitchen. and actually evidence that it changed over time. they've come down upon the original fireplace where jefferson's early meals, he and his wife liv

we had an open kitchen. totally. i built it that way.y i can see the customers and manage the restaurant at the same time. and then, one day, when i served smoked salmon, normally we used brioche, then it came into my head, i will just cook the pizza dough with some ions. because smoked salmon and onions go well together. and i put some cream, some fresh dill, and shallots on top. then put the cold salmon because hot and cold goes well together. soft and crispy goes well together. and then i taste and said, wow! a glass of champagne with that would be perfect. everybody tasted it. i used to send it to all the people that i knew. they had never saw anything like that. ♪ haslinda: next on "high flyers" -- wolfgang: we never hear about them. [laughter] ♪ ♪ haslinda: so, chef, whenever you do a google on wolfgang puck, the first thing that comes up is celebrity chef. yet, the term celebrity chef is not one you want. wolfgang: absolutely not. i want to be known as a chef. do know, i work in my restaurants. and we have a lot of famous people c

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after years of assisting in the kitchen, he started entering some of his own pies. took home a ribbon, the drive home didn't go as well. >> he won. >> things happen. >> and all the way home, he kept driving along, i don't know why you didn't win. i didn't even try with that pie, and i won and you didn't. i wanted to push him out in the foothills of the carolinas. >> reporter: that's right. the campbells drive the 22 hours to florida. it's their only vacation. each year they load up the van. >> spices and colorings. >> reporter: they meticulously pack up the kitchen and stuff their coolers with ingredients they're convinced are just better in wisconsin. >> cream. we got cream. >> reporter: they head south, unload it all at a rental house. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: and spend days baking their way around a new kitchen, which is no cakewalk. competitor devin davis enjoys a bit of a home oven advantage. he grew up just 30 miles away from the competition. >> i've been cooking since i was 5 years old probably. my mom was a nurse. she hated me being in the kitchen. >> repor

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>> of course. >> that's the kitchen? >> that's the kitchen, yeah. >> the whole kitchen?> that's everything, yeah. >> how are you? i'm marcus. >> hi. hi, marcus, gerri. >> gerri, nice to meet you. [horn honks] this is the whole kitchen? >> this is the entire kitchen. >> this kitchen is tiny. i'm shocked by the size of this kitchen and the lack of equipment in there. i don't know how she even cooks anything, let alone contribute to the $500,000 coming out of her department. be nice if you had more space. >> it would be great to have more space. that's the biggest problem we have. when we're plating at night and a full bar of 75 people, it's really hard. it's tight. [car alarm chirps] >> just hearing from some of the other team members about the place, i think the biggest thing is there is no leader. >> no. >> no? when i was called to come here, i think they assumed that i would just come in and just write a check. >> yeah. [laughs] >> and the reality of it is, is that i am not convinced yet. >> are you the grim reaper, or--[laughs] >> me? >> yeah. >> sometimes. i don't rea

kitchens. wow. >> no, actually, she really likes iris by the goo goo dolls. ♪ so he drops on a knee and proposes. but what made her open her eyes in surprise? frank pans the camera around and you see the flowers and the will you marry me sign. >>> they're weird looking. they're prehistoric looking. and if you've ever been on a beach in the east coast, you may have come across one and not known about it. but coyote pete is going to fill us in. coyote is stomping through the tide pools right here and looking for animals. when he comes across an interesting one. >> it is alive. look at that. look at that. wow. >> what? >> it's like out of aliens. >> what a bizarre looking creature. >> isn't it cool? we used to see these things on the jersey shore. i never knew much about them. but coyote fills us in. they're really cool animals. >> they have no stinger. no fangs. no teeth. >> but they sure look intimidating, don't they? >> people think that's venomous. it actually is not. >> it's called a horsesho

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oh, my gosh. >> i told everybody in the kitchen.just like, i'm out of this [ bleep ]. >> after serving three years at the tennessee prison for women, jamie eldridge is about to go home. >> so tomorrow first thing when i get out, i'm going to get my cigarettes in a box, definitely in a box, no more roll-ups. i'm not going to have to hide from an officer to smoke. >> but while jamie is gaining her freedom, she's also leaving something behind. >> you spend your whole time trying to forget this place, like when you're gone, you're gone. it's over. but -- and then i met christie, which was totally -- i just feel so [ bleep ] up in my heart about it that, you know, i'm just leaving something so precious behind. she's got to do her time, though, you know. >> she's done her time. you know. she's got a family and everything out there that loves her. it's hard to let her go. i love her. you know. she's everything to me. >> jamie and christie won't be allowed to say good-bye at the gate, so they meet on the ball field for the last time. >> i l

what i see is a kitchen that's got kitchen equipment that's missing. being asked to partner with people that don't know their numbers. it scares me. i mean, i hope you can appreciate that. how much ice cream do you buy a year? -mike: are you gonna add it up? -paul: yeah. mike: okay. 'cause i got the sheet. lemonis: the place is called farrell's ice cream parlour. you should probably know how much ice cream you sell. mike: paul was handling the number stuff. "trust, but verify" is what ronald reagan said. i trusted, but i didn't verify, and it's pulling this damn company down. lemonis: in order to be a leader, you don't blame people. you solve problems. take some ownership of your issues. when i think about making an investment, i think about investing in hard assets. -mike: mm-hmm. -lemonis: in this case, there's no cash flow, there's no real assets, and so the only thing that's really left is, "what is the farrell's brand worth?" mike: okay. lemonis: so i have interest in investing in two things -- the trademark and the locations themselves so i can i

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good to go for tomorrow. >> working in the kitchen, fast paced.going on somewhere in the kitchen. making sandwiches, as you can see. they are making breakfast. now we're on lunch. as soon as this is over we're doing dinner. every day. same routine. >> for inmates whose sentences allow for it, working in the kitchen can bring a faster release date. >> only reason i like working is you get three for one. each day i work is kind of like three days. i had to do 90 days. now i end up doing 30. as far as working down here, it is not something i would volunteer to do. i'm just trying to get out. >> even inmates who don't qualify for sentence reduction find other benefits to the work. >> i've been down here two months and got two months left. i don't receive any three for one credit or anything like that. i just do it for the extra food, extra visit time and things like that. >> cory hall worked in the kitchen pouring juice during a prior stay in jail. and he hopes to be hired back. >> sometimes they need people in the line just to fill the trays. so i'm

theelectric kitchen at chicago world's fair was similar to this image, features the latest electric item, including oven.le, broiler, and this is a little water heater of some kind. this is a stewpot, and of course our oven. cooks demonstrated items to exposition visitors who likely wowed over the preparation of food on an appliance visibly powered by electricity sent through a thin wire. instructor, seen here in the 1890's at her electric table, demonstrates the latest portable electric cooking appliances. wiresher is a sea of connected to the table. one visitor describes her as cooking with "trained lightning." these ladies are demonstrating ge appliances around 1908, likely at a sanitary fair. seen in the foreground are two coffee percolator's, a toaster and a popcorn popper. frankensteinian toaster again. this is a double boiler. most things that we take for granted today were available in this period already. demonstrators even traveled from .own to town -- imagine that these ladies what from house to house in 1907 to show off the latest appliances -- although how they plugged them

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since 2012, her vibrant handcrafted design have been a favorite in more than 4,000 kitchens across thery. ellen was working as a line cook earning $10 an hour when she cooked up the idea for headley and bennett. >> no one thought about making an apron that looked good and was functional. >> reporter: the standard a white apron. >> it didn't fit, i wanted to make a better uniform and something that people felt proud to wear in the kitchen. >> the art of the high-end apron became ellen's daily focus. the lack of design experience never held her back. >> i had chunks and dreams and i had ideas. i had to be like, no, let me just tell you. we're talking about proper aprons. they're made out of japanese denim and handmade in los angeles. and every pocket is reinforced and then put it on their body. tie it on and then they'd love it. >> the steep price tag wasn't a hard sell either. >> you look at the craftsmanship that goes into and you think this thing will literally last forever. it takes 12 people to make one headley & bennett apron. >> from the structure and stitching to the fabrics and

working hard in the kitchen getting up to all kinds of nonsense. themselves a grand plan. >> graham cracker. one giant chocolate bar. >> i know exactly where this is going, please continue. >> there's a giant piece of chocolate. what do you think that is? >> giant piece of marshmallow. >> that's exactly right. >> a giant s'more. >> it looks incredible. but there is one problem with that marshmallow. >> now let's roast this baby. >> you've got to roast it. they give their buddy miles a call. he's got something that might just work. >> oh, my gosh. oh. >> yeah. there you go. flame thrower. that's all we need. >> perfect sense. >> what you're now going to see is the most extreme trust exercise any couple has gone through. >> start the fire then bring it to. >> okay, okay, okay, okay. i don't want to do this anymore. >> you're going need a longer stick. >> they realize that is a big problem. so they end up putting it up on something so they can direct the flame straight at it. think it looks cool like that, check it out in slow mo. >> that's cool. that

it came down to the kitchen on the fourth of july warning and was shocked.but the colorado park and wildlife says the bear will not be back. they deemed him a threat to society and tracked him down and euthanized him. >> by now, everybody has seen the picture of governor christie and his family and friends enjoying island beach state park while the public was completely shut up. some of our referring to the says beach gate. one lawyer added the step of filing an ethics complaint against the governor and the state ethics commission. we are joined by jane randall. welcome back to chasing news. >> hello. >> you have seen the picture, what's your take and what are you saying? >> were getting a lot of traffic. it is a giant middle finger to taxpayers in new jersey. that being said he's the least popular governor in the country. his hell bent on making it stay that way. >> we did a report on new jersey 11.5 he was the fourth least popular on the second half of the 20th century. for the past six years or so, i believe at least two of those three that are ahead of h

empire. >> nolan is really gravitating towards food, like he liked to cook in the kitchen. he'd be throwing his towel over the shoulder and saying bam. >> you need some measuring stuff here. >> reporter: christine stillwell worried about whether her son nolan, who has down's syndrome, would be able to find a meaningful job. so sweet heat jam the stillwells created their own opportunity. >> i think that every parent of a special needs child should never underestimate what their young person can do. >> reporter: so nolan, what's your favorite part about making the jam? >> i like it here. >> reporter: you like it here? >> yeah. >> reporter: this kitchen, you did this. >> yes. >> reporter: with 13 flavors, most of them a mix of fruit and nolan's spicy peppers, business is good. sweet heat jam is selling thousands of jars a year. and nolan has hired a team, four employees and four rotating interns, all young adults with disabilities. how does it make you feel to work here at sweet heat? >> really happy. they understand our disability. >> all right. let's load her up. >> reporter

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and they were like, who, the white boy used to work in the kitchen?h all the tattoos. he said, yeah. he's like, no, he left. i said, oh, oh, god, what am i going to do now? >> agee is now on her fourth day in the unit. >> every time the door opens i think he might be there. so everything is like in slow motion. and it just sucks not knowing like really what he's doing or what he's thinking. so i wrote him, i was like, yeah. well, if you're getting this letter, i'm probably in 1a. he's a very jealous person, so he knows there's a bunch of dudes down here. and i'm a pretty little white girl and his girlfriend. so he'll be here by tuesday. >> any plans on going down to 1a? >> i don't know. i thought about it. i contemplated it several times. but it just doesn't work out. and if i go, i'll probably piss somebody off and get 30 days, then she'll be out, then i'll be sitting crazy for another 15, 20 days. so i think as of right now with the other things i got going on, you know, i'm probably just going to hang out for a minute. >> were you able to check on

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lemonis: i noticed there was some confusion in the kitchen.ngs are not running as smoothly as they first appeared. which burger is this? man: texan toppings with an egg on it. lemonis: did somebody order a texan with an egg? anybody order it with an egg? you're still waiting for it? is this it? joe t.: i'll get you a burger in sec. lemonis: you got yours and you didn't get yours. that will be on us, by the way. joe t.: are you working on 41 over there? -man: i'm on 45. -joe t.: there's no 41 there? lemonis: we're waiting for a burger with an egg. joe t.: i need that firing, okay? lemonis: who ordered this one? man: we had to remake this burger. -lemonis: is this a refire? -man: yes. well, we dropped it. -lemonis: so this is a no bueno? not only have they messed up two orders, they're completely disorganized. we had another issue. different table, totally the wrong burger. when he went out there, somebody said they didn't order it. woman: that was number eight. that was the one that you wrote down. man: no, it wasn't. lemonis: we're not busy. s

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take me down stairs and put me in the kitchen, asked me with this heavy wool blanket. this is damascus in the summer, must be 100. i said i'm hot. you shouldn't get called when you get your first period. how aim going to get cold in his house? don't worry, just listen to me. love you. so she is some hot water and something in the hot water and she said, drink this. what is this? she said, it won't kill you. it was -- she said, this is going to make you white. so, after she make my drink it and i'm almost throwing up, she's holding me still so i don't throw up, and when -- after half hour she know i'm not going throw up, she take me and this she grabbed me, i'm small, and make my swing. oh, when this is done -- i'm crying. i woken kill you. this is going to make you taller. trust me, going to make you taller. i'm going to be white and tall. so for a whole week she did this to me. for a whole week she would wait on my mother and aunts to take their afternoon nap and then have we drink this sauce and swing. by the time the week was over, i felt sicker than a dog, and my a

so, fuji is in charge of the kitchen, and he is now a partner, as well.e managing partner. if we're gonna set the standard, it's gonna be my standard, and my standard is way higher than you guys'. when i'm done, there will be something special about our food. there will be something unique and different that nobody else on staten island will have. and we're gonna start over. is that clear? tranchina: i like that very much. sammy: i'm ready. i'm ready. lemonis: but we got a lot of damn work to do. let's get to work. come on. so, fuji, one of the things that we're gonna do -- we're gonna start over on the menu. now that we've got the chef back, the thing i'm most excited about is getting him into that kitchen to come up with new ideas. i'm looking to kind of see the gold inside of here -come out in here. -fuji: all righty. tranchina: what do you think about doing a mixture, like doing a little pork with a little beef or something? meatballs -- sometimes that meat is so juicy 'cause it's got that fat from the pork in there. maybe, like, some jalapeÑos with s

with their kitchens cook healthy food for kids every single day. >>> needy families in california 8 soon to be able to connect to critical food services thanks to a bill that was signed in law this month by grochb nor brown. that allows users of the cal fresh food program to dial up 21 to more quickly access nearby food pant tries and grocery outlets. this is the first bill by palo alto mark berman to be signed into law. >>> some soccer fans may be a little euphoric this morning after a thrilling gold cup at levi stayed jum. >> this went right down to the line and morris kicks the game-winning goal in the 88th minute of play as the u.s. goes ton beat jamaica 2-1. take it all in, big man. more than 60,000 fans there attending last noit's game. one group you might say that would already lost before the game even started. thousands of mexico fans bought tickets assuming their team would make it to the finals only do see them lose in the semmies. >> you would say usa versus mexico but now it's usa versus jamaica but we're just trying to get a good time. >> the night was more than just a