Cristeta Comerford, a longtime White House executive chef who recently retired after nearly three decades of preparing meals for five presidents and their guests, says first families are “just regular ...

Asians in White House culinary history White House culinary history includes chefs from China, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea and Thailand, as far back as the 19th century, according to ...

Do you bring any Filipino flavors to your work at the White House? Growing up in the Philippines and learning to cook with my mother gave me the greatest tool: your own tongue! You have to taste ...

Shapiro: I think the last time the White House hosted a state dinner for the Philippines, if I'm not mistaken, was 2003 during the George W. Bush administration. What was that day like for you?

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller ... in two provinces in the Philippines in 1905, and in Hawaii after the bombing at Pearl Harbor. Suspending habeas corpus, as a result, would ...

Cristeta Comerford served as executive chef at the White House for nearly two decades until retiring last July. Comerford, 62, was the first woman and first person of Asian descent to hold the job.