Obama family’s favorite Chicago chef is coming to the White House.
* By: Dayo Olopad
Samuel Kass, the 28-year-old cook who served as personal chef to the Obama family in Chicago, will be cooking nightly at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, White House Social secretary Desirée Rogers confirmed for The Root. Kass, who will hold the title of assistant White House chef, is also the son of Robert Kass, Malia Obama’s former fifth-grade teacher and onetime faculty director at Chicago’s Laboratory School.
The young chef’s organic cuisine and sustainable kitchen philosophy won over the new first family years ago. Kass trained in Europe after graduating from the University of Chicago in 2003 and ran a private catering business that counted the Obamas as clients even before Malia was assigned to the elder Kass’ classroom in 2007. The Obamas’ refrigerator used to be filled with “Cheez-Its and stuff like that,” says one former Lab student, who has known the Kass family for years. “[Sam] got him eating healthy—got the whole family eating healthy.” The family friend says Kass, a varsity college athlete, “has been cooking for [the Obamas] since they got to Washington.” (A White House spokesperson could not confirm or deny Kass’ involvement in any pre-inaugural snacking.) read more here
Tags: healhty food, Obama diet, The Root, whitehouse
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