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Dolly Johnson (born late 1820s, died after 1887), in later life known as Aunt Dolly, was a small-business owner and domestic worker. She was posthumously described as "one of the finest cooks that ever lived in Greeneville, Tennessee".
Apr 26, 2022 · The woman in the photograph below, taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the White House kitchen, has often been identified as Dolly Johnson. However, the Library of Congress dates the photograph “between ca. 1891 to 1893.”
- Trailblazing Celebrity Chef: Lena Richard. (1892-1950) Lena Richard defied the odds stacked against her as a Black woman in the Jim Crow South to become one of America’s first celebrity chefs and the first African American to host her own TV cooking show, 14 years before Julia Child made her debut.
- White House Head Cook: Laura "Dolly" Johnson. (1852-1918) An insider once called the White House head cook, “the most respected person in the house other than the president’s immediate family.”
- Cookbook Pioneer: Malinda Russell. (1812-date unknown) When Malinda Russell self-published A Domestic Cookbook: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen in 1866, she was looking to make money, not history.
- Civil Rights Organizer: Georgia Gilmore. (1920-1990) Georgia Gilmore was a cook, midwife, and mother of six known around Montgomery, AL, for speaking her mind and making the best pork chops in town.
Laura Johnson Dandridge (1852–1918), also known as Dolly Johnson, was a 19th-century African American female head chef at the White House, the executive mansion of the U.S. government. [1] She worked in the White House during the Benjamin Harrison administration and then again, after taking some time off for her daughter's health issues ...
Dolly Johnson, personal cook to President Benjamin Harrison, in the small White House kitchen in 1890 In 1961, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy reorganized the White House staff under her supervision, and created the title of Executive Chef for the first time. [21]
Mar 25, 2022 · The inaugural Juneteenth Foodways Festival on June 17 honors Laura “Dolly” Johnson, a former slave from Kentucky who became the head chef for President Benjamin Harrison’s White House in...
Dolly Johnson, an African American from Kentucky, was the cook for President Benjamin Harrison. She had cooked for the Harrison family in Indiana sometime prior to their move to the White House. She was summoned to the White House by President Harrison around 1889 to replace Madame Petronard, a French chef.
