... by the Sierra Club, which adapts nineteenth-century agrotopian narratives to twentieth-century preservationism and neo-Malthusianism. Next, it turns to Michelle Obama’s White House Kitchen Garden, as depicted in American Grown (2012). While This Is the American Earth...

..., whether that be at the White House, or when the president travels elsewhere. The book concludes with a look at how the contemporary White House kitchen operates, how it inspires young people to the profession, and the prospects for future African American presidential chefs. Each chapter ends with actual...

...This chapter opines on the prospect for another African American to helm the White House kitchen at some point in the future. No African Americans have presided over the White House kitchen since Zephyr Wright did in the late 1960s. Given the current way that chefs often get hired to work...