The Presidential Culinary Museum

The Presidential Culinary Museum & Collections in the town named after the President of the United States of America Grover, Cleveland County, North Carolina Including Presidential Culinary Library holdings and The Presidential Service Museum honoring the White House Military Office PSB holders and Alumni members Open daily, seven days per week, 9:45 am to 2 pm and daily *guided tours begin at 9:45* (groups warmly welcomed), Admission is $7.00 per person for all guided tours, children under 12 are free, basic museum entry is $3.00 per person. This is a fully guided tour of the private and public collections of Chef Martin CJ Mongiello - a former Executive Chef to the President of the United States of America including exhibit items and artifacts sent by the National Archives and Presidential Foundations. Other collections from private foundations include the Miller, Griffith, Mancuso, Bush, Carter, Reagan, Clinton families, libraries and foundations. Listed in the Official Museum Directory in partnership with the American Association of Museums. New, Special Exhibits ~ read on... with gracious thanks to The President's Cabinet Level Donors Doctor Carol Haas Plonk Gravagno & Emilio Gravagno ~ The Miller Foundation The Mongiello Foundation and our First Family Level Donors The Mancuso Foundation, Peter Griffith Ed & Tonia Muckenthaler & Eric Salter The American history making Hambrecht / Hambright family mansion home reaching into the legacy of Congressman and Lt. Colonel Frederick Hambright (famed of the Kings Mountain battle) and on to Doctor Alfred Hambright, Assistant Surgeon to Confederate Generals A.P. Hill and Stonewall Jackson winds through the house. Portions of the tour discuss service to the White House, Camp David and Vice President's houses via the famed Chefs and the US Navy Chefs. Modern Household and Estate Management service to the Forbes 400 and Fortune 500 list is also showcased along the tour which leads underground by candlelight to the servants quarters with fiddle and banjo music. Discover the china of the American Presidents and First Ladies from the newest collections of John Quincy Adams and Dolly Madison on up to Presidents Clinton and Bush. The tour and museum traverses the entire home and ends with a meeting by the old slaves house chimney in the outdoor Chefs Herb Garden, along with a Chefs Talk, Question and Answer period. The tour also includes a behind the scenes route through the underground German Ratskeller staircase to see the secret life of servants to the elitist rich of society. You may encounter a number of personalities or six accents along the way! Special tours for groups by request can also include fully costumed actors.
	President Jefferson's dinner and desert plates are shown in the foreground with Martha Washington, Abigail Adams and Dolly Madison in the background. Recent, Iron Chef winner, White House Chef Chris Comerford is shown who worked with Chef Marti under former White House Chef Walter Scheib - another Iron Chef Winner. New Special Exhibits First Lady of the United States of America, Sarah Childress Polk and North Carolina's pride, President James Knox Polk: An historic exhibition of the UNC law graduate, their receptions in the White House, a china exhibit of their dinner plate and teacup with saucer on display next to famed favorite recipe, Hickory Nut Cake. January 11 to June 11. Sarah attended high school in NC and James was born here, in Pineville (where the NC Memorial site is). The Presidential Culinary Museum at The Inn of the Patriots Bed & Breakfast, Grover, Cleveland County, NC www.theinnofthepatriots.com 704-937-2940. Read about the exhibit as featured in it's original debut of 2010 in the Gaston Gazette and Shelby Star newspapers here, with full page - full color spreads: http://www.gastongazette.com/articles/presidential-43001-china-see.html Easter Egg Roll on the Presidential Culinary Museum Lawn - Always held on Easter Monday - simultaneously with the White House. The White House Easter Egg Roll began in 1878 when President Hayes invited local children to roll eggs on the South Lawn. First Lady Dolly Madison first began the tradition of Easter egg rolling in Washington, when local children joined her for an egg roll at the Capitol in 1814. In the ensuing years the children made quite a mess and in 1876, Congress passed the Turf Protection Law, banning the use of the Capitol lawn as a playground. In 1877, bad weather kept everyone indoors and there was no need to enforce the law, but in 1878 children stood outside the gates of the White House until President
		Hayes invited them onto the grounds to continue the egg roll tradition. The White House Easter Egg Roll has taken place every year since 1878, but during the beginning of World I, World War II, and the Truman Administration’s renovation of the White House, the event was held on the National Mall instead of the South Lawn. 1927 was a landmark year in Easter egg roll history. That year, the White House hosted a young Nancy Reagan, who would go on to host eight of her own Easter egg rolls as First Lady from 1981-1988. The Presidential Culinary Museum features an egg roll with prizes, hidden CASH egg hunt and the Easter Bunny along with Easter snacks free to the public. Of special note and value are our very own limited edition, hand signed in gold - wooden, red, white and blue painted eggs by Chefs Stormy, Marti, JT and Rania, for children to find. The Presidential Culinary Museum at The Inn of the Patriots Bed & Breakfast, Grover, Cleveland County, NC.
	The roll is held simultaneously and features the live news broadcast from the White House. For more information about the Easter Egg roll please visit the outstanding website of the White House Historical Association and consider visiting them on your next trip to Washington, DC.
	Frances Folsom Cleveland: 21-year old First Lady of the White House. June 12 to December 12. The only First Lady to ever be married inside of the White House and to birth a child inside the White House - this exhibit of beauty and favorite orange blossoms celebrates her love with President Grover Cleveland (whom our town is named after - Grover, NC), The Presidential Culinary Museum at The Inn of the Patriots Bed & Breakfast, Grover, Cleveland County, NC www.theinnofthepatriots.com 704-937-2940. This exhibit space is growing annually and new items have been acquired by our curators and collectors such as renditions of photographs, actual .22 cent stamps featuring Grover, a copy of a caricature on his fight over the Gold standard to back US currency - not silver, a copy of his $1,000.00 bill issued in America and an authenticated TOPPS trading card featuring the Cleveland's - all in 2009/2010. In 2010, several other items have been procured and authenticated as originals, including a 1956 card issued by TOPPS, the 2007 and 2009 White House Historical Association, Grover Cleveland Christmas Ornament and a 24 kt Gold Cover Plate first first presented and issued in the Rose Garden. A very rare issue, US Mint twenty dollar bill with President Cleveland on it. More popular, and more so issued, was his $1,000.00 bill in our museum (copy) We eagerly await the issue of the Gold Presidential Dollar Program, in 2012, for Grover Cleveland. President George H. W. and First Lady Barbara Bush Menus and Recipes of a Nation Enjoy the new exhibits of the Bush family including recently sent menus from State Dinners of Pakistan, England, USSR, Argentina, Italy and Morrocco. Additional items showcased are recipe cards sent to Chef Marti in 2010 by First Lady Barbara Bush featuring her very own favorites. See the Mexican Mound! Annual Gingerbread Display of Camp David Cabins and Presidential Resort in the Catoctin Mountains. December 13, 2010 to January 10. Chefs Stormy, Marti and JT have made an annual event out of showcasing Camp David where Marti was a Manager of the retreat and resort complex. Taking care of four restaurants, numerous lodging facilities, a US Secret Service hotel and 16 homes owned by the US President is no small task! The staffs are massive in size and scope and the homes are rarely featured or shown in history. A fun look at the historic homes is had in gingerbread every year and started in 2009 with the President's home of Aspen, formerly known as the Bear's Den or Bear's Lodge at Shangri-la. President Eisenhower renamed it at his wife's request to Aspen. He also renamed Shangri-la to Camp David after his grandson. (First Lady Polk is pictured top right while First Lady Cleveland is pictured below right on her wedding day in the Blue Room) (Also of note is that Colonel Benjamin Cleaveland of Cleaveland (later renamed in 1887 - Cleveland) and President Cleveland are both related and descendants of progenitor Amos Cleveland of Boston, MA) Senior Curator Martin C.J. Mongiello, MBA Master Certified Food Executive (MCFE), Certified Executive Chef (CEC) *Major Curator & Curatorial Director, Allan B. Miller, CHM* Curator and Interpreter, Stormy LeAnn Mongiello, CMM *Presidential Curator and Marketing Manager, Andrew M. King, CMM* *Consultant to Gift Shop, Connie Fails*

Proud US Navy Chefs pose with President & Mrs. Eisenhower.
Our museum tour is included (35-minute guided) with every stay...

Eggs figure into a lot of cookery and bakery - but the White House
Easter Egg Roll is fun with wooden eggs! Find out about the children
at the foot of the pyramids banging colored eggs around and how this
influenced Dolly Madison to start the idea here.

Different recipes and favorites of the Presidents and First Families
will be shown and talked about - with a few stories as well...
All of the famed White House Executive Chefs, like Marti's mentor
and boss - Walter Scheib, are featured and their books sold here.

Why 50 to 60 US Navy Chefs are at the White House will be
shared as will the dozen at Camp David.
See more at www.USNavyCooksandChefs.com

Five different letters from Presidents wishing thanks to Chef Marti
will be seen. Interesting artwork and menus from around the world
are shared when he cooked for the people of Asia and Europe
representing the cuisines of the USA. Chef Marti retired from
the US Navy after 21 years service to our country.