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South China Morning Post
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Chinese chefs who served US presidents, and the delicious dishes they cooked
A decade ago, while he was researching his book on African-American cooks in the White House, Adrian Miller came across an intriguing title in the University of Denver library's special-collection catalogue. The book, published in 1939, was called To a President's Taste: Being the Reminiscences and Recipes of Lee Ping Quan, Ex-President's Steward on the Presidential Yacht, USS Mayflower, as told to Jim Miller. '[When] I finally got to look at that book, I almost fell out of my chair. It's a memoir cookbook. It was the most complete telling of a chef's story that we've ever had in presidential history up to that point. The fact that it was by a person of colour, too, was also noteworthy,' Miller said recently. 'So it wasn't really germane to the book I was writing about African-American chefs, but I just made a mental note that at some point this book needs to be reintroduced to folks, because it was printed in 1939 and it just seems like it fell into obscurity.' Lee Ping-quan cooked for two US presidents: William Harding and Calvin Coolidge. Photo: White House Historical Association A hard copy of Lee's memoir cookbook, detailing his time as a chef for US presidents. When Miller, a former lawyer who worked in the White House during Bill Clinton's administration, finished writing his book, he talked to a few publishers, asking if they were interested in reprinting Lee's book, but they all declined.
Yahoo
07-06-2025
- Yahoo
In case you missed it in The Sun the week of June 2, 2025
Jun. 7—The following stories from this week appeared on and in The Jamestown Sun. The North Dakota Department of Transportation has selected the roundabout option for the U.S. Highway 52 and 10th Street Southeast intersection, according to Jamestown City Councilman David Steele. Steele informed the City Council during committee reports on Monday, June 2, that the North Dakota Department of Transportation has also selected a five-lane road with a two-way left-turn for Business Loop West, which is similar to the existing road. The project would reconstruct the U.S. Highway 52 and 10th Street Southeast intersection and Business Loop West from 4th Avenue Southwest to 10th Street Southeast. The two bridges on Business Loop West will also be replaced. The project includes restriping 1st Avenue South from 7th to 10th Street Southeast to help match the configuration of the Road Diet project further north in the downtown area. A Jamestown day care owner and employee are accused of falling to report a sexual assault of a 4-year-old girl, according to court documents. Nicole Ruby Stevahn, 45, and Adrian Anne Miller, 35, were arrested on Friday, May 30, on suspicion of child abuse — caregiver and taken to the Stutsman County Correctional Center. Stevahn and Miller each face a formal charge of failure to report suspected child abuse or neglect, a Class B misdemeanor. They made their initial appearances on Monday, June 2, in Southeast District Court in Jamestown. Stevahn pleaded not guilty to the charge and Miller had not yet entered a plea as of 9 a.m. Friday, June 6, according to the . Stevahn and Miller were each released on a $1,000 bond. Stevahn and Miller are accused of failing to report suspected child abuse, neglect or death resulting from child abuse or neglect or failing to provide information or filing a false report, according to court documents. Stevahn is the owner of Charge on Together Childcare LLC, located at 321 16th Ave. NE in Jamestown, and Miller is the director, according to the organization's website. A nonprofit ministry that has partnered with United Presbyterian Church in Jamestown is helping families in the eastern side of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by providing cows for milking . Dorcas Society Ministry Executive Director Douglas Chimanga said families in the east side of the Democratic Republic of the Congo will receive a cow from the ministry. He said giving a cow to each family will help them become self-sufficient. Dorcas Society Ministry, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has partnered with United Presbyterian Church in Jamestown. The ministry helps people from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who are affected by war. Chimanga said each cow costs $300. He said he is thankful to the Jamestown community for the donations. If opening weekend at Frontier Village is any sign of the tourist season to come , it looks to be a good one, said the visitor experience manager for Jamestown Tourism. "It went really well," said Allison Limke. "It was very busy up at the Frontier Village. We had three cases of ice cream go within three days so that means ... we sold probably close to 150 cups of ice cream. That's just in three days and that doesn't account for all the other things that were going on up there." Frontier Village officially opened on Memorial Day weekend and is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Sept. 14. Admission is free to the pioneer town, and donations are welcome. To make the visitor experience more enjoyable, a new website — — was created and the information center was moved to the Village's train depot, Limke said. The website helps people get their questions answered before they arrive, she said. The Stutsman County Park Board unanimously approved on Tuesday, June 3, accepting a grant from the North Dakota Parks and Recreation Department's Recreational Trails Program. North Dakota Parks and Recreation Department awarded $240,000 to the Stutsman County Park Board to establish destination kayak launch sites at key recreation points along Jamestown Reservoir, according to the department's website. The 80-20 matching grant through the Recreational Trails Program requires a match of $60,000 from the Stutsman County Park Board that can include in-kind donations and labor. The park board has 18 months to complete the work. Projects include purchasing concrete picnic tables and docks and installing them at various areas along Jamestown Reservoir and ordering a skidsteer. A Medina, North Dakota, man was sentenced to 16 years in prison recently in Southeast District Court in Jamestown on felony charges related to sexually assaulting juveniles. Judge James Shockman sentenced Jeremy Craig Reister, 41, to 16 years in the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation with credit for 231 days served and 34 days credit for good time. Shockman placed Reister on 40 years supervised probation and ordered him to register as a sex offender. Shockman also ordered Reister to pay a $900 criminal administration fee, $100 defense/facility administration fee and a $25 victim-witness fee. On Feb. 5, Reister pleaded guilty to gross sexual imposition, a Class AA felony, two counts of incest, sexual assault and tampering with physical evidence, Class C felonies, and surreptitious intrusion, a Class B misdemeanor.
Washington Post
19-05-2025
- General
- Washington Post
The Asian chefs who have fed U.S. presidents
Adrian Miller was hoping to find a long-lost treasure in the stacks at the University of Denver's library — but the one he discovered was unexpected. The self-described 'Soul Food Scholar,' whose books exploring African American food history have won two James Beard Awards, was searching through the library's Cookery and Foodways Collection of more than 11,000 volumes, many of which had originally been collected by Margaret Husted, whose husband had been the business editor of U.S. News & World Report. Among the items were community cookbooks and compilations of historical recipes, dating back centuries. In 2015, while looking for information about Black chefs who may have cooked in the White House, Miller simply typed 'presidential' into the database and was surprised by the book title — and author — that suddenly appeared: 'To a President's Taste: Being the Reminiscences and Recipes of Lee Ping Quan, Ex-President's Steward on the Presidential Yacht, U.S.S. Mayflower.'
