But as George Washington Park Custis wrote, Posey was an extraordinary man, and on 22 February 1797, he walked away from Mount Vernon only to be seen once more, four years later in New York City.

On Feb. 22, 1797, while George Washington celebrated his 65th birthday at a ball in Philadelphia, his celebrated chef, Hercules Posey, slipped from the meager enslaved quarters at Mount Vernon ...

Nowadays, presidential feasts and state dinners get all kinds of attention—for the guests in attendance and the food served alike—and the chefs whipping up the meals can become celebrities in their ...

George Washington’s 1795 Thanksgiving celebrated liberty. But the chef behind the feast had none. ... Known as "the General's cook," Hercules Posey ran the kitchen, ...

The World’s 50 Best Restaurants: The list continued to recognize restaurants outside of the European fine-dining tradition, with innovative presentations, experimental flavors and hyperlocal ...

Black History Month Meet Hercules Posey, the founding foodie. Today's Black History Month tribute, courtesy of Judge Derek Mosley, introduces you to Hercules Posey, the head cook to George Washington.

A portrait long thought to be of George Washington's enslaved chef, who cooked for the former president at Mount Vernon and Philadelphia before escaping, is actually not of Hercules, and isn't ...

On the third Thursday of February 1795, President George Washington proclaimed a day of national thanksgiving to thank God “for the Constitutions of Government which unite and by their union ...

But as George Washington Park Custis wrote, Posey was an extraordinary man, and on 22 February 1797, he walked away from Mount Vernon only to be seen once more, four years later in New York City.

Nowadays, presidential feasts and state dinners get all kinds of attention—for the guests in attendance and the food served alike—and the chefs whipping up the meals can become celebrities in their ...