The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-27
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W. By SIGRID ARNE slAAP Feature Service Writer

 WASHINGTON-The little lady who is to, decide what the King and Queen of England will eat when they visit the White House got her start years ago with whole wheat bread She is Mrs. Henrietta Nesbit, a small, quick-moving person with fluffy gray hair, blue eyes, soft voice, and a perfect smoothing of trou- bled-waters way of laughing when things go wrong-like disappearance of the chocolate roll for lunch and the President and his guests wait- ing.
 She was born in Duluth, but for years she has been a Hyde Parker. She met Mrs. Roosevelt when, they were both working in the League of Women Voters before the Presi- dent became Governor of New York.
 She had a knaek for making whole wheat bread - and friends likedlit so well and received so many loaves as neighborly gifts that they began to insist on paying for it.
 Mrs. Roosevelt heard about the bread and ordered some for Hyde Park. From that start Mrs. Nesbit branched out to making cakes and cookies and to catering.
 Ita On To White House Then, when the Roosevelts moved toaAlbany Mrs. Nesbit went along to nn the Governors mansion From there she came to the White House, where she looks after meals, repairs curtains. walters and maids. She says the only business training she ever had was on bookkeeping job and as manager of a wonlan's exchange in Springfieid, Mass.
 But her job now is equivalent to managing a good sized store. Her desk in her sunny White House of flee is covered with charts. She has secretary, but there is so much business involved running smoothly that Mrs. Nesbit gets to her desk at 8 and never leaves before o'clock On reception nights it is midnight before she slips on an evening dress and joins the guests to see there are no hitches. She had a pretty slate blue satin for the diplomatic recep- tion
 This is how Mrs. Nesbit schedules meals: N t fetF
 She makes a big card chart for the week with a block of space for each meal On it she notes how many will be, eating and the hour. Then she keeps a loose-leaf note book that ties into the chart. There is page for each meal with the date, the menu, and the amounts she must order.
 Hundred Things To Watch Then it is matter of seeing that the ten turkeys get there fresh and on time for the Wednesday dinner and that the 12 packages of bread sticks for the Saturday lunch, the six punches of celery, the crates of grapefruit for breakfasts. and the hundred and one other things ar rive On schedule.
 So there is no time to go rushing around to the Kitchen to ice cake. She has a staff for that. She just looks at the meals before they start upstairs on the dumb waiter. Here is sample menu It was served the diplomats this year when there were 94 to dinner:
 Calf's Head Soup and Bread Sticks Curled Celery Assorted Olives
 Filet of Fish with Green Sauce
 Sliced Cueumbers
 Roast Turkey with Chestnut
 Dressing
 Cranberry Jelly Peas Buttered Carrots Sweet Potatoes and Apple Slices Grapefruit and Orange Salad Cheese Crescents Salted Almonds and Macaroons Ice Cream and Cookies t.s Coffee
 | Mrs. Nesbit gets little weary witt people repeating that the President. favorite dish is scrambled eggs, be. cause he has other favorites, too for, instance, praised sweet bread' in port wine sauce, roast wild duck fartichokes with hollandaise sauce and sweet, corn in season. She say I Mrs. Roosevelt is indifferent to foot but she is pleased when she get chicken livers roasted on scewers. | Mrs. Nesbit says the visit of tn, King and queen of England is ont of those bridges she is going to eros when she gets to it. z
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