No White House Food Fight

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I have been a certified chef for 42 years. My first cirtification was May, 1967 and my most recent certification was September 2007.
I am both amazed and appalled that the picture accompanying Holly Bailey's article shows not only Chef Cristeta Comerford but also an assistant handling food without the use of food-handling protective gloves!
I also note that with the exception of Chef Comerford, the other persons present in the food preparation area are not wearing a hair restraint.
These are two (2) major breaches in proper food-handling.
Is there no sanitation check for the handling of food which is to be served to our Chief Executive?
I prepare and serve food to only "John Q. Public"; however, I follow, and insist that my staff follow, the rules and guidelines that govern our trade.
I would thing that "Newsweek" might try to be a little more informed before publishing a picture.
Bill Podgwaite

I have been a certified chef for 42 years. My first cirtification was May, 1967 and my most recent certification was September 2007.
I am both amazed and appalled that the picture accompanying Holly Bailey's article shows not only Chef Cristeta Comerford but also an assistant handling food without the use of food-handling protective gloves!
I also note that with the exception of Chef Comerford, the other persons present in the food preparation area are not wearing a hair restraint.
These are two (2) major breaches in proper food-handling.
Is there no sanitation check for the handling of food which is to be served to our Chief Executive?
I prepare and serve food to only "John Q. Public"; however, I follow, and insist that my staff follow, the rules and guidelines that govern our trade.
I would thing that "Newsweek" might try to be a little more informed before publishing a picture.
Bill Podgwaite

Who cares we already know how much money they make.

I realize this may not seem important in the face of economic and security issues. However, there is certainly a health crisis going on as well in this country - isn't heart disease one of the biggest preventable killers of people in this country? The fact that the vast majority of folks commenting think that this is not an important issue is probably part of the problem. Food is a comfort item and people generally continue to eat what they've always eaten - it is VERY difficult to make changes in your eating habits, despite what several people said about people having freedom to choose their food and knowing what is good and bad for them. They may know, but it is a whole other story to actually make those changes. Although the methods of the person in this article were rude and ignorant; I certainly do think that any support or role models for healthy eating that affects people's food choices is a positive change for this country. If you deal only with the major crises, the rest of the issues will be in crisis by the time you get around to them. I don't think the president should be required to reveal what he is eating; however, if he chooses to do so, and it has a positive impact on people's health - thank goodness!

Obama took on a big job. He works. He gets paid. We don't own him body and soul. He, like all other Americans has the freedom to worship as he chooses and the freedom to eat as he chooses. Some people want him to be a new kind of slave. No thanks. The Obamas eat healthfully and encourage their children to do the same, but they aren't so rigid that they never allow themselves a scoop of ice cream. They eat healthy at home but when they go to a fair, they eat stuff on a stick. They're Americans. They may be more faithful about their usual diet and exercise programs than most of us, but they aren't over the top. If they told what they ate at every meal then there would be continual pressure and controversy. Bush mentioned that he didn't care for broccoli and it was nearly the end of the world according to broccoli growers. Beef producers would call 911 if they ate tofu and vegetarians would yell cruelty if they ate pork and PETA would picket the White House on the days they ate chicken. Strawberry growers would have something to say as would dairy producers and vegans. Leave the Obamas alone to enjoy their dinner with their own family and set all the examples you want with your own family. Good luck. Setting examples tends to curdle everybody's stomach and make your kids hate you.

The Executive Chef didnt even finish her college FROM PHILIPPINES. So the fashionable NEW YORK TRIO thought that all she can do are hamburgers and hotdogs. All those ego bouncing around because they thought she is from a third world country educated by third world university. Those "third world" people are in you hospitals, your accounting firms, your aerospace companies and they seldom talk about themselves. If everyone would be like them, this would be a more peaceful place. Enough of the noise.

EAT THAT!!! :)

What are these Star chefs think that chef who cooks for Head of States, Diplomats, affluent clientele do not know about the different cooking trends or ethnics cuisine!... I am disturb that these so call Star Chefs who have books and other media attentions think that chef like Comerford was not aware about Organic food that they had to propose a kitchen cabinet for Elected President Obama. That is absurd and insulting Chef Comerford intelligence to go behind her back and think that the White House Chef is that unaware of Organic Foods. She definitely on top of her game. Has a past French diplomatic chef for 10 years for the US ambassador in Bern Switzerland and knowing a great deal about cooking for diplomat families, affluent clientele you have to always in alert of what is going on in the food trends. In addition, preparing meal for a private family is much more complex them cooking in a restaurant. Thank news week for bring up this issue.
Chef Gilles prochefgilles@gmail.com

I bet you when these so-called food gurus make the rounds of TV shows, they would brag about how they have convinced the Obamas to eat healthy & organic when in fact, the Obamas might not even have heard of them. & since they are keeping the Bushes' chef, this week they should ask her to cook some pancit, lumpia or adobo & shake up some leche flan for dessert. YUMYUMYUM!!!!!!!

With all the problems we have is this what folks concern themselves with? Next thing they will want to know is if the Obama family eats whole grains cereal for breakfast. Who cares about such trivia!

IF you ever notice the "food scolds", they have a tofu burger in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Talk about hippocracy. When they finish with the tofu burger, they pick up a glass of alcohol and light up another cigarette.. It's not healthy eating that offends me. It's the arrogance of the hippocrits that gaul me and everyone else. When they get cancer, it's not blamed on their smoking or alcohol. It's blamed on plastic bottles or the environment. The same environment that the rest of the free world lives in and doesn't get cancer. They never take responsibility for their own bad habits, but have no problem scolding the world in regard to their food religion. Get a life. My grandmother would call them "know-it-all briggidy-britches". The kind of people everyone runs from and can't stand to be around.

Likewise, Obama, the closet cigarette/pot smoker. And they're worried about organic food???? My point exactly.