White House executive chef Cris Comerford, left, and White House executive pastry chef Susie Morrison, right, hold dishes during a media preview for the State Dinner with President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Nov. 30, 2022. FILE PHOTO/Associated Press WASHINGTON — A house-cured smoked salmon, red grapefruit, avocado and cucumber starter.
Dry-aged rib eye beef in a sesame sabayon sauce. Salted caramel pistachio cake under a layer of matcha ganache. While President Joe Biden and his guest of honor at a White House state dinner chew over foreign policy, the female chef duo of Cris Comerford and Susie Morrison take care of the culinary diplomacy.
They pulled off the above menu for Japan’s leader in April, and they’ll have new array of delicacies for Kenya’s president on Thursday night. Comerford, the White House executive chef, and Morrison, the executive pastry chef, are the first women to hold those posts, forming a duo that has tantalized the taste buds of guests at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. with their culinary creations for nearly a decade.
Comerford is also the first person of color to be executive chef. READ: From Maasim, Bulacan, to the White House Comerford, 61, sharpened her culinary skills while working at hotels in Chicago and restaurants in Washington before the White House brought her on in 1995 as an assistant chef. A naturalized U.
S. citizen and Filipino native, she was named executi.
