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Obamas’ Filipina chef at home with healthy ways

August 27, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Cristeta Pasia-Comerford

Cristeta Pasia-Comerford

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — For the White House chef, serving homegrown vegetables straight from the garden is just like preparing food in her native Philippines — healthy and simple.

Filipino American Cristeta Pasia-Comerford, the first woman and first minority to serve as the executive chef in the White House, credited the first lady for making sure her family eats steamed, organic vegetables from the garden she planted in April.

“Mrs. Obama is a very hands-on person when it comes … to knowing healthy meals for the family,” Comerford told a news conference Aug. 24 in Manila.

She is one of three to be honored this year by the Bank of the Philippines as an outstanding Filipino overseas.

The honor was formally awarded on Aug. 25.

The naturalized American said that picking food from the garden reminds her of summers spent at her grandmother’s house in the Philippines’ Bulacan province.

“They like simple meals, they like simple food,” she said of the first family.

The first lady had said earlier that she and Comerford shared a “perspective on the importance of healthy eating and healthy families.”

The chef refused to answer specific questions about the Obamas’ favorite foods and eating habits.

Comerford, who also served under former President George W. Bush, studied French cooking in Vienna, Austria, and specializes in ethnic and American cuisine. ♦

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Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2009, Austria, Filipino, MANILA, Obamas Filipina, Philippines Bulacan, White House, vol 28 no 36 | August 29 - September 4

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