The Commander in Chief of Culinary, Beer, and Wine Schools!
Since 2008, 5,406+ total students have graduated. Enjoy The US Presidential Culinary Museum®, Food & Wine Tours, Cooking Vacations, Classes, & Getaways - seen on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS, & FOX in over 400 shows! Online or LIVE classes & graduation certificates with The United Tastes of America Cooking School™.
How much fun our 5,406 graduates have had!
Enjoy a Presidential dish or one of our recipes
About two+ hours long (2.5 hours) depending on questions & eating! WE ALSO DO SPECIAL CLASSES FOR GROUPS ON ANY DAY GOOD FOR THEM!!!
- January 1, New Year's 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 @ 1 PM EST). The Ultimate Peach Crisp, Crumble, Betty, Buckle, pie. Tell your NY resolution and share it with everyone.
- February 5: Chinese New Year's Dinner! We gather, cook, and eat at 2 pm EST. 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 Chefs Marti & Stormy! Cook & then dine with wine and lovers from all over the world. Share your five-minute story. Herb-Grilled Steak on a Franconia Roasted Potatoes Prison tower 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.
And see our Italian curriculum, Scottish & Outlander curriculum, Arabian nights, and living and teaching in Europe as well as living across Asia here. Our international clients for medical cuisine, estate staffing, school, and security protocols for estates owned by UHNW family offices, glitterati, stars, and industry icons are here and supported by the IAHHRM Academy, teaching worldwide.
A fun class photo of graduates getting their certificates.
30,000+ guests after 18 years of fun!
Halls, resorts, clubs, churches...
We can offer to write your certificate on the Ethereum blockchain, providing a foolproof way to verify your résumé and prevent fake diplomas. We offer Zoom, VR, HoloLens, or LIVE classes & graduation certificates recorded on the blockchain. 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 of eight attendees, maximum of 12 people. Each student purchases ingredients and has them ready for the day of the event. A graduation certificate is sent with a serial number that allows each attendee to fill in their name just as they want it.
- 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. 5k to 65K and see our shows under the navigation bar of TV & STAGE SHOWS.
The host requires an advance payment. Other students in a group or company pay the host. Cancellations made within 14 days of the event will only allow 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 severe financial impact and that we are being honest upfront. Please note that we have a minimum fee and do not offer refunds if only a few dozen people attend. Thank you, Chef Marti
Folks invite us to community halls, resorts, homes, churches, and country clubs. Previous years' curricula centered on Arabic, French, Italian, German, and other languages, 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 2025, we have traveled to cook as far as Tokyo, with 600 people dining at an event. 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, whiteboards, flipcharts, and hands-on cooking activities. 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 offer all forms of medical cookery and specialized diets, along 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 tasted fantastic! "The Clintons were the largest advocates for healthy eating after coming to understand the dangers 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 Trumps to get some chocolate and now have that on exhibit!" state the two Chefs. President Bush's Chef was just here and put on a huge show, covered by the press. Please see our testimonials from Presidents, Kings, Queens, corporate stars, & glitterati here.
"Since that time, I have also been pleased to consult and design several restaurants for the Trumps. Half of the time we are serving butlers, bartenders, housekeepers, and Chefs as aides 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, Kings Mountain, Shelby, and Greenville.
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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.