a lot of the blame rests on henrietta nesbitt as it often does and lillian parks rogers in her diaryight on this. the african-americans who cooked for roosevelt would often be doing their thing and henrietta nesbitt would come behind them and adjust the seasoning. whatever they were making she messed it up so the food never worked out. i want to point out what i did find room i research. i did a lot of research looking for resident staff and the main boon for my research was old newspapers. a lot of companies are digitizing old newspapers and they are word searchable. if you can figure out the terms that were used, you can find out a lot about the cooks. i found ida allen, the chief cook. let me back up and say the term white house executive chef did not come to a distance, jacqueline kennedy created that term. before that, they were first cook, head cook, and started as a pantry man, worked for a long time and leave during the johnson administration and was a well-known caterer in the washington dc area. elizabeth blake, and assistance cook, daisy bonner, james carter, there was a j

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 out that is a tradition but roosevelt is most known for the of martini. so then to ravenous with that exact formula working of by a family committee. but that was not as mild. and mrs. a stronger martini. it was so dry it could be mistaken for some and. and then mixing vermouth and aegean -- gen. he would say he had the power to decide the ultimate taste of the martini but at this point some people were not sure they wanted a martini after all. and some