another woman is lizzie mc duffy who was a made in the roosevelt administration but did a lot for food service and daisy, a cook who would cook for fdr when he stayed for long times in georgia. i am dealing with so many people i eventually found 150 people who cooked for our president from george washington to the current administration. there are holdovers in the trump white house and found 150 people and decided the best way to tell the story was to create different categories of these cooks and tell those stories. i start with the ingredients, all the things that create interplay and started out with they used to be called the presidential steward, they were in charge of all the method operations, they are the chief usher but the earliest day they were the steward, they would do the shopping and plan menus and oversee operations, then i move to the enslaved people who cook in the white house because a lot of our presidents have been placeholders and i talk about free cooks from the beginning all the way to the present who were part of the white house culture and the cook when the pr