Slave Chefs of the President
Hercules and Hemings: Presidents’ Slave Chefs
Some kitchen stories are complicated — full of mystery and missing pieces — the truth hidden by time. No photographs to capture them, little historical record to go on. “Hercules and Hemings” is one of these stories. In this piece, Hidden Kitchens turns its focus to the president’s kitchen and to some of the first cooks to feed the Founding Fathers — the enslaved chefs of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Listen to this podcast courtesy of NPR.
Presumed portrait of Hercules, George Washington’s enslaved cook, by Gilbert Stuart.
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