Helping hand: Mr Kass has travelled the country to promote Michelle Obama's eat-right-and-exercise-more message, one such appearances was on the reality series Top Chef (shown above). It funded child nutrition programs and free lunch programs in schools for 5 years. He grew up in Jewish faith and spent his childhood in the Hyde Park of Chicago. Hobnobbing with the stars: Mrs Obama and Mr Kass were featured with Dallas Cowboys football player Miles Austin (centre) when the appeared on Tom Colicchio's reality show Top Chef where they prepared healthy meals for students, Back in Chicago (where his schoolteacher father taught Malia Obama in fifth grade) Mr Kass worked at the Mediterranean restaurant Avec before opening a private chef business, Inevitable Table, that promotes ‘a healthy lifestyle that focuses on the quality and flavour of food to encourage good eating habits.’. ': White House security fence is covered in signs telling Trump he has lost as Biden is on track to win the presidency. Over the years, Sam has grown from a close friend to a critical member of my team, and I am grateful for his outstanding work and look forward to seeing all that he will continue to achieve in the years ahead. But he says the family ‘walks the walk’ on healthy foods, eating balanced meals often dictated by what's in season in the White House garden. By Associated Press Updated: 11:13 EST, 20 February 2012. In 2003, Kass finished his senior year of college abroad, training under chef Christian Domschitz in Vienna, Austria. Michelle's risen from your average girl... From a professional skydiver, U.S Army Ranger, and Entrepreneur, Greg was much more than a model and actor. Barack Obama and family were also among the guest. Frank... Chris Dickerson is one of most inspirational bodybuilders in the history of the sport. He was a history major in college, who discovered a love for cooking during a summer job at a Chicago restaurant. Kass's mother, Valentine (née Hertz), is a science educator at the National Science Foundation and previously served as the director of Omnimax productions at the Museum of Science and Industry. [42], In September 2013, Kass became engaged to MSNBC television anchor Alex Wagner. Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is an American attorney and author who was the First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

That job has put him out front this month as the first lady marks the second anniversary of her campaign against childhood obesity. She is the owner of Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, California restaurant famous for its organic, locally grown ingredients and for pioneering California cuisine, which she opened in 1971. Sam was born to Valentine Hertz Kas and Robert Kass in 1980 as Samuel David Kass in the United States. ‘We've got stuff,’ he promised her.

At a child obesity conference last summer in California, Mr Kass told about fretting over nightmare scenarios before hosting a group of schoolchildren for a summer harvest of broccoli, kale and other vegetables — an event that was to be observed by a sizeable press corps.