The Commander in Chief of Culinary, Beer, and Wine Schools!
Since 2010 - 5,403+ total students have graduated. Enjoy Presidential Food Service® Food & Wine Tours, Cooking Vacations, Classes, & Getaways - seen on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS, & FOX in over 90 shows! We offer Zoom, VR, Holo-lens, or LIVE classes & graduation certificates recorded on the blockchain.
How much fun our 5,401 graduates have had!
Enjoy a Presidential dish or one of our recipes
About two hours long depending on questions & eating!
- January 1, New Years Day Roast Pork, Blackeyed Peas, Skillet Cornbread, Pot Likker & Greens Dinner - then eat together! @ 2 PM EST (additional VIP Chefs Table with Marti for entrepreneurs and influencers before includes Pumpkintini drink @ 1PM EST). The Ultimate Peach Crisp, Crumble, Betty, Buckle, pie. Tell your NY resolution and share with everyone.
- February 5, Chinese New Years Dinner! 2 pm EST we gather, cook, & eat. EAST MEETS WEST LIVE from San Francisco to Charlotte. We'll be making the famous Chinese Long Noodle Soup Bowl! (Like a one noodle ramen bowl)
- February 14, Valentine's Night for couples in their own little "Alcatraz of Love" with Chef's Marti & Stormy! Cook & then dine with wine and lovers from all over the world. Share your five-minute story. Herb-Grilled Steak on a tower of Franconia Roasted Potatoes Prison w/Butter, Orange Lemon Glazed Carrots & Panna Cotta @ 6 PM EST.
- March 5, Outlander Scottish Cottage Pie with Traditional Highlander Fennel Salad and Dressing - then eat together! @ 2 PM EST.
- March 16, Before St. Patrick's Day, making real Irish Soda Bread with Raisins class! @ 6 PM EST.
- March 17, St. Patrick's Day Emerald Island Dinner and then eating! @ 6 PM EST. Guinness Beef or Lamb Stew (or mixed with both - your choice), Colcannon or Champ, & Honey Glazed Carrots and Parsnips.
- April 2, Easter Dinner with friends eating together @ 2 PM EST.
- May 7, Cinco de Mayo Festival! 2 pm EST we gather, cook, & eat.
- June 4, Celebrating Juneteenth coming up! 2 pm EST we gather, cook, & eat.
- July 2, 4th of July Basted Shrimp Kabobs and Magical Carvings with Honeydew and Cantaloupe Designs. 2 pm EST we gather, cook, & eat.
- August 6, National Watermelon Day with Cool Carving for Summer Parties. 2 pm EST we gather, cook, & eat.
- September 3, Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur Matzah Ball Soup & Challah Bread Making. 2 pm EST we gather, cook, & eat.
- October 1, German OktoberFEST! 2 pm EST we gather, cook, & eat.
- November 5, Diwali Celebration of India Cookery. 2 pm EST we gather, cook, & eat.
- December 3, Happy Holidays and Two Christmas Celebrations. Salted Carmel Pecan Pie in a Walker's Shortbread Cookie Crust, Pumpkin Pie in Julia Child's Crust 2 pm EST we gather, cook, & eat.
A fun class photo of graduates getting their certificates.
Order and pay for individual classes here:
Fun Cooking Class with Certification
All classes are fully interactive and we will eat together when done, or you can run and save all of your food for dinner that night! The secret code will be sent privately for entry online. If you can't make a class, you will hold your credit for the next time you can make it (no frequency of classes is promised). All classes are transferrable and can also be given as gifts so, in some cases, people will pay for this as a gift and email the info to a friend as a gift! You can also print your payment sheet and put it into a greeting card. Please see our testimonials from Presidents, Kings, Queens, corporate stars, & glitterati here.
Class dates are announced across social media. If you randomly just buy a class, we will wait until we hit eight people signed up before announcing a date and theme. Groups of eight can pay and then call to request a fun date specific to them! (YAY!)
(Edible flower-pot bread is shown for each guest dining)
30,000 guests after 12 years of fun!
Halls, resorts, clubs, churches...
We write to the Ethereum blockchain to beat fake diplomas in a fool-proof way to verify your resumé. We offer Zoom, VR, Holo-lens, or LIVE classes & graduation certificates recorded on the chain. Check out Oculus or Google Cardboard here. Most students attend just by ZOOM and are cooking along with us! Please see our testimonials from Presidents, Kings, Queens, corporate stars, & glitterati here.
- FOR ONLINE CLASSES - 99 PER PERSON, popular with small clubs and families asking for a short video, and then preparing a recipe. Minimum eight attending, maximum 12 people - each student purchases ingredients and has them ready for the day of, grad certificate sent after with serial number.
- FOR ONLINE GROUPS, PACS, CORPORATE, OR LARGE HALLS IN PERSON - popular with companies and non-profits online, or at large halls where social distancing is easier at country clubs, resorts, political dinners, large conventions, home and food shows, hotels, churches, and association lodges. 7500 to 30K and see our shows under the navigation bar of TV & STAGE SHOWS.
Advance payment is required by the host. Other students in a group or company pay the host. Cancellations within 14 days before the event only allow for another person to attend in their place. Refunds are not provided including reasons such as a catastrophic accident, immediate hospitalization with LifeFlight, death and funeral arrangements, or nuclear release near your home causing forced evacuation with law enforcement and military troops on site. Please understand the serious, financial impact and that we are being honest upfront. Please understand we have a minimum fee and do not allow refunds if you only have a few dozen people attend. Thank you, Chef Marti
Folks invite us to community halls, resorts, homes, churches, and country clubs. Previous years curriculums centered on Arabia, French, Italian, German, and others taught in our facility for ten years! In 2019, we decided to expand our school even larger by offering it across the USA to reach the next 5,000 students, making it 10,000 shared with! Not everyone can travel to our location here. Throughout 2020 we have traveled to cook as far away as Chicago and with 200 people dining at an event! Just get your group together at $80.00 per person. We accept all major credit cards.
Many groups have seen our TV series and want to cook a particular favorite from a first-family - and that's fine! We teach for about 2 1/2 hours showcasing the history, hands-on recipe cookery, and then eat all of what we made! We blend history into classes with slides, videos, wipe boards, flip charts, and hands-on cooking. We are unable to support gluten-free, vegetarian, soy-free, and other medical eating desires in our general classes unless the entire group agrees to it (i.e. an entire soy-free class). However, we do offer all forms of medical cookery and specialized diets with cooking classes in your private home, or community center.
Getting their just desserts, was one of only a few fun things when Chefs Marti and Stormy were cooking at the Clinton Foundation for a recent huge, gala dinner and speech in Little Rock. As "Commander in Chef," stirring things up (sauces and pasta) in the President's cabinet daily, Marti often tricked his guests into healthier food while they believed it to taste fantastic! "The Clintons were the largest advocates for healthy eating after coming to understand the damages of too much junk food, and still are," reveals Chef Marti. "We loved also receiving "All the Presidents' Menus from the Bushes" in Texas, sent by the National Archives - and now have them on display in the museum," "We recently called the Trump's to get some chocolate and now have that on exhibit!" state the two Chefs. President Bush's Chef was just here and did a huge show covered by the press. Please see our testimonials from Presidents, Kings, Queens, corporate stars, & glitterati here.
"Since that time I also was pleased to consult and design several restaurants for the Trumps. Half of the time we are serving, butlers, bartenders, housekeepers, and Chefs as an Aide to the Presidents, so you are very well-rounded in skill sets."
Approved by The Intercontinental Academy for Household, Hotel, and Resort Management (IAHHRM). Enjoy cooking classes near Charlotte, Asheville, King's Mountain, Shelby, and Greenville.
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More about our school and teaching options
Program for Private Internship Graduation
The United States Presidential Service Center (PSC) allows professionals and non-professionals to gain credit; we are an inspected facility and approved via Laurel Estate & Resort Management and Placement. Continuing Education Credits (CEU's) or meaningful life-experience with a former White House Chef, Martin CJ Mongiello, and to graduate at your esteemed facility. We bring our curriculum to schools, country clubs, and resorts. An internship is a critical component of all culinary schools, and we have visited many the world over. Please see our testimonials from Presidents, Kings, Queens, corporate stars, & glitterati here.
Upon graduation, all internship students receive a gold medal with red-white-and-blue ribbon and are presented with an 11 x 14, large certificate with an embossed, gold-foil seal.
- A one-day (8-hour) course of working with White House Chef Marti Mongiello is 1400.
- A two-day course is 2500 (two 8 hour days).
- Our one-week curriculum-based format includes our winery, restaurant, wine bar, gelato bar, farm work, olive oil, and vinegar store, providing comprehensive instruction from the farm to animals, vinology, and sanitation 7200.
- An apron featuring the private trademark and seal is included with chefs' pants.
- All graduates have their serial number registered to their name - see www.iahhrm.com for more information also on our school and world, annual summits.
- Two of Chef Marti's books, signed, are included.
- One of Chef Marti's trademark Chef's knives are included (a $700.00 set of redwood is also available).
- You will take two oral exams and three written exams.
- A typed, full-color letter of reference is provided based on the behavior and skills shown.
- Our courses of instruction can include business development and ethics instruction.
- In some cases, we attend to companies via ZOOM or in-person MASS instruction across 190 countries. Please invite us or inquire.
Cooking Classes and Teaching in 19+ Countries! Learning across the earth!
Be sure to book with us as a Certified Culinary Tour Specialist (CCTS) of Edible Destinations at Epitourean.com. Your hosts can be Marti and Stormy from The Presidential Culinary Museum ™ and Presidential Service Center a DBA of The Inn of the Patriots, LLC to your group going, or you can enjoy a trip with any other group, and some of our 200+ instructors to our 19 countries visited, or just you two alone on one of our trips!
To review our classes and tours all over the world (click it), be sure to see the dates and times and book with us as a Certified Culinary Tour Specialist (CCTS). After securing your trip and deal, and only after, be sure to mention to our specialist agent, David Loy - Epitourian President and CEO that former White House Military Chef Marti Mongiello from the Presidential Service Center - sent you for an extraordinary discount. The discount will be applied to overseas or domestic trips and tours! Chef Marti and Stormy personally guide tours for special request groups (of at least 16) with reasonable notice, before-hand. Otherwise, enjoy all of our chefs and guides, they are terrific.
Chefs Marti, Kim, and Mindy.
Teaching at Private Estates
We've worked with quite a few families and are proud to say that you may know many of them. Through our one-of-a-kind management agency, we train, teach, and coach on private estates - often placing former Presidential Service personnel into a loving home. You can read more here. These include chefs, au-pairs, butlers, household and estate managers, security personnel, nannies, and mannies. We also harden estates to avoid and prevent an attack. We focus on biometrics, CCTV, human intel, alarm, bomb mitigation, blast, biologic, bribed personnel, poisoning, nuclear, and fire threat. Please see our testimonials from Presidents, Kings, Queens, corporate stars, & glitterati here.