Walter S. Scheib III (born May 3, 1954) was the White House executive chef from 1994 until 2005. Scheib is known for his creation of a distinctly American cuisine for the White House. He was responsible in this role for preparing everything from simple First Family dinners to very formal State Dinners. His creations were served to many of the highest dignitaries in the world, including Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Vicente Fox, Václav Havel, Nelson...
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Walter S. Scheib III (born May 3, 1954) was the White House executive chef from 1994 until 2005. Scheib is known for his creation of a distinctly American cuisine for the White House. He was responsible in this role for preparing everything from simple First Family dinners to very formal State Dinners. His creations were served to many of the highest dignitaries in the world, including Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Vicente Fox, Václav Havel, Nelson Mandela and Boris Yeltsin.
Walter S. Scheib III was born on May 3, 1954 in Oakland, California, but he and his family moved to Bethesda, Maryland. He attended Walter Johnson High School and then the University of Maryland, College Park. He then graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York in August of 1979. He then began working as a cook in Washington, D.C. He was promoted within three years to executive chef. In 1994, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton was impressed by Scheib's work at the Greenbrier Resort and asked...
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