With Trump dipping badly in the US polls, it's looking increasingly likely that there won't just be a new president in the White House. There will also be a vacancy for a new chef. One thing is certain: the Trump presidency will not be remembered for its cordon bleu cuisine.

Will Biden - who describes himself as a regular Irish-American working class boy from the suburbs of Scranton, Pennsylvania -  be any different ? The current White House executive chef is a Filipino-American called Cristeta Pasia Comerford. She has ruled the kitchen since 2005. The truth is that Democrat presidents invariably take their food - and wine (Trump is tee-total) - much more seriously than their Republican counterparts.

Perhaps the most famous era of presidential cuisine was presided over by René Verdon, who died in 2011. He was a French-born American who was the White House head chef during the administrations of both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

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