Our onsite shop and our online stores
Fun shopping at The Inn of the Patriots! The Gimme Some Sugar Gift Shop & Chief Hagler Gift shop. We develop, press, mint, package, and create over 30 consumer product goods from coins to foods and from knives to nine different books.
Our online shop and Facebook Shop
Our specialty, ONLINE, gift shop features our private greeting cards featuring many heroes of the great 1780 Battle of King's Mountain like Colonel Andrew Hampton, Colonel Benjamin Cleveland (Cleaveland), Private Ishmael Titus, Colonel Frederick Hambright and many other unique steins, coffee mugs and more. And try our Facebook Shop for coins and Special Room Stay Packages and cooking classes! Also, be sure to enjoy perusing our many Presidential Food Service™ items like aprons and laundry bags.
Wonderful treats, cookbooks, and snacks... Earrings, key chains, gourmet teas, and more! Just a few of the many styles of earrings made from demitasse spoons and more...
Thank you for supporting our efforts to grow with our disabled US military veterans' projects!
Our White House Chefs Knives are a huge seller across the USA with ErgoChef.
Marti's many books for sale
Private Estate Management
Private Estate Management
Private Estate Management
In this 280-page large-format textbook used by many estates and butler academies, Marti details how to hire and lead teams as well as shows a sample household manual for a royal household. PRINT OR EBOOK.
Presidential Flavors
Private Estate Management
Private Estate Management
The President’s dining habits have always been of interest to the public. What does the Commander-in-Chief like to eat? Are he and his wife extravagant in their tastes and expenditures, or modest? How does the First Family entertain? PRINT OR EBOOK.
Shero Entrepreneur
Private Estate Management
Shero Entrepreneur
The real story of the American "Shero" Mary Patton and her famed gunpowder production can finally be heard in her voice. Scientific, forestry and geologic research reveal the hidden truth untold for hundreds of years. EBOOK OR AUDIOBOOK. The audio work with SAG/AFTRA on this audiobook is exceptional and riveting. Not for the timid.
Shero Entrepreneur
From the Obama exhibition
Shero Entrepreneur
This is the same book only available in print with full color, first-ever paintings in it of Mary Patton, Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, Colonel Andrew Hampton, Catawba Indian Captain Redhead, Mary Patton, Black hero Ishmael Titus, and Colonel Frederick Hambright.
FULL-COLOR PRINT.
From the Obama exhibition
From the Obama exhibition
From the Obama exhibition
As part of the President Obama and Rosa Parks exhibition launched at The US Presidential Service Center, Marti helped publish this book, NO DARKIES SIT IN THIS SECTION OF THE BUS: YESTERDAY AND TODAY, with Orlando Herrera, Jr.
FULL-COLOR PRINT.
Delicacies in Proportion
From the Obama exhibition
From the Obama exhibition
“[D]elicacies in proportion” (the title of this book) were the words used by Washington correspondent and writer Ben Perley Poore to complete a list of the foods served at a presidential inaugural ball supper in 1881.
PRINT OR EBOOK.
That Palace in Washington
Plain Food & High Thinking
Plain Food & High Thinking
That Palace in Washington: An Anecdotal History of White House Entertaining 1800-1850. PRINT OR EBOOK.
Plain Food & High Thinking
Plain Food & High Thinking
Plain Food & High Thinking
Plain Food and High Thinking: An Anecdotal History of White House Entertaining 1901-1953. Writer Gilson Willets in 1908 used the words “plain food and high thinking” to describe the philosophy of Theodore Roosevelt. PRINT OR EBOOK.
Our best-selling booklet!
Plain Food & High Thinking
Our best-selling booklet!
A Man for all SEAsonings: Hail to the Chef and All the Presidents' Menus is coming in 2020! Previously selling thousands of copies in three versions, this popular booklet will now be released worldwide and in full-color. Used extensively by Marti's 5074 students graduating from his cookery academy.
Books Marti & Stormy are featured in or helped with
Famous locals
Patriot Militiaman
Patriot Militiaman
Eminent Charlotteans: Twelve Historical Profiles from North Carolina's Queen City. This book is by the famous attorney Scott Syfert. We are in the section for our work and help with heralding black Americans in the colonial war and Private Ishmael Titus.
Patriot Militiaman
Patriot Militiaman
Patriot Militiaman
Patriot Militiaman in the American Revolution 1775–82 (Warrior Book 176). We are credited extensively for helping with the research of this book by Ed and Cathy Gilbert. They stayed at the inn many times and celebration dinner was hosted with talk!
The BEST of NC
Patriot Militiaman
The battle of Cowpens, SC
Eat & Explore North Carolina: Favorite Recipes, Celebrations, and Travel Destinations by Christy Campbell. This state version has all the best places to go to and Christy includes recipes from the tastiest ones! Our Polynesian Cookie recipe is in here as well as our award-winning inn.
The battle of Cowpens, SC
The battle of Cowpens, SC
The battle of Cowpens, SC
Cowpens 1781: Turning point of the American Revolution (Campaign). In this book, we gained global coverage and credit from the authors, Ed and Cathy Gilbert. Osprey Publishing is a British, Oxford-based, publishing company specializing in military history and in all museums, worldwide.
NY Times best-seller
The battle of Cowpens, SC
Featured as a Hotelier
Everyday Cooking With Dr. Dean Ornish: 150 Easy, Low-Fat, High-Flavor Recipes. Forty-six easy-to-prepare seasonal menus that use inexpensive, common ingredients as part of a practical, appetizing, low-fat and low-cholesterol diet features Chef Marti's Arkansas Meatless Chili that he invented for the Clinton's. Later, this became Boca-Chili for sale across the USA.
Featured as a Hotelier
The battle of Cowpens, SC
Featured as a Hotelier
Day Trips® from Charlotte: Getaway Ideas For The Local Traveler. This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover within a two-hour drive of the Charlotte metro area - and our inn and museum are one of them!
Spartanburg, SC history
Spartanburg, SC history
Spartanburg, SC history
True for the Cause of Liberty: The Second Spartan Regiment in the American Revolution. We were happy to be featured by Ed and Cathy Gilbert as they are award winners of the US Presidential Service Center Distinguished Service Medal.
Veteran Heroes featured
Spartanburg, SC history
Spartanburg, SC history
Hometown Heroes: Heroic Stories From Brave Men and Women. The stories of Veterans and the service they gave can be found inside because Greg McIntyre is passionate and dedicated to the heroes who served, and to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice protecting the freedoms of their country. He featured an entire chapter on Chef Marti.
Civil War Reeneactors
Spartanburg, SC history
Civil War Reeneactors
Returning to the Civil War: Grand Reenactments of an Anguished Time. From the battlefield to the sea, from the hospital to the ballroom, the stories in this book bring the experience of reenacting to life. Authors Al Thelin and Kent Courtney photographed sailors and marines, of Marti and Andrew King with the group, to show them as an "exotic" in the reenacting community.
Submarine Centennial
Featured as a Restaurateur
Civil War Reeneactors
Diving into Dolphin History A Culinary Celebration of the Submarine Force Centennial. For the 100 year centennial of the American submarine force, as a nuclear submariner - Marti joined in with a recipe for publication and to help raise money for scholarships and The Navy Relief Fund.
Featured as a Restaurateur
Featured as a Restaurateur
Featured as a Restaurateur
Great Jersey Shore Jaunts by Kelley Anne Mc Gee is a wonderful showcase of restaurants, chefs, sights, and hotels across the Jersey Shore and beaches.
It features the famed flavors of many cooks and chef Marti as well at his Jersey Sailor Restaurant and Dinner Theater.
With Chef Otto
Featured as a Restaurateur
Featured as a Restaurateur
A Chef Is Born. Before Otto Borsich competed on Top Chef, before he taught at the Culinary Institute of America, before he ran the kitchens of 4- and 5-star restaurants, he first had to be born. In his no-knives-barred approach to life and cooking, Borsich carves out his own Otto-biography. As one of Marti's life-long friends, Otto quotes him - in this first of three tomes.