Thursday, April 23, 2026

Cooking to the President's Taste: Asian Chefs in White House History

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Join us for a special evening with Adrian Miller and Deborah Chang in celebration of their award-winning book, Asian Heritage Chefs in White House History: Cooking to the President’s Taste. Chefs cooking for the president — in the White House kitchen, for state dinners, on presidential yachts, and at Camp David — help define American cuisine on a national scale. Asian Heritage chefs with roots in China, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand have been cooking for presidents for over a century and continue to do so today.

Learn more about these chefs from Adrian Miller and their recipes, Asian and American, from Deborah Chang at this important conversation moderated by Ernabel Demillo from CUNY-TV.

Museum of Food and Drink

55 Water Street 2nd floor | Brooklyn, NY 11201

Thursday, April 23, 2026

7 - 9 PM (doors open at 6)

Purchase Tickets

Tickets include access to Street Food City from 6 to 7 PM and refreshments.

Courtesy of our partner bookseller Kitchen Arts & Letters, copies of Asian Heritage Chefs in White House History: Cooking to the President’s Taste can be pre-purchased for a discount in a ticket bundle and at full price during the program.

Museum of Food and Drink

55 Water Street 2nd floor | Brooklyn, NY 11201

Thursday, April 23, 2026

7 - 9 PM (doors open at 6)

Purchase Tickets

Tickets include access to Street Food City from 6 to 7 PM and refreshments.

Speakers

Adrian Miller

is a food writer and attorney. A two-time James Beard Award winner, his books include Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time, The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, From the Washingtons to the Obamas and Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue. He received his A.B. in International Relations from Stanford University in 1991, and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1995. In 2022, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Denver Institute for Urban Studies and Adult College. From 1999 to 2001, Miller served as a special assistant to President Bill Clinton with his Initiative for One America and went on to serve as a senior policy analyst for Colorado Governor Bill Ritter Jr. Since 2013, Miller has been the executive director of the Colorado Council of Churches. He is also the co-project director and lead curator for the “Proclaiming Colorado’s Black History” exhibit at the Museum of Boulder. A certified barbecue judge, Miller lives in Denver, Colorado.

Photo credit: Ryan Fila