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Samuel David "Sam" Kass (born 1980) worked at the White House from January 20, 2009 to December 19, 2014, and during this period served as President Barack Obama's Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy, as Executive Director for First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign, and as an Assistant Chef. The White House announced his departure on December 8, 2014.〔https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/08/white-house-announces-departure-sam-kass〕 On July 29, 2015, NBC News announced the appointment of Sam Kass as a senior food analyst, charged with covering topics such as healthful eating, food trends and policy on all platforms of NBC News. ==Early life and education== Kass grew up in a Jewish family〔(The Jewish Daily Forward: "5 Jewish Tastemakers To Watch" by Adeena Sussman ) December 31, 2012〕〔(The Tablet Magazine: "Executive Dish - Noshing at the White House, last month and through the years" by Joan Nathan ) June 24, 2010〕 in Hyde Park, a neighborhood of Chicago.〔(New York Times: "A White House Chef Who Wears Two Hats" By RACHEL L. SWARNS ) November 3, 2009〕 His father, Robert,〔(Chicago Sun Times: "Sam Kass, White House chef; exclusive interview" by Lynn Sweet ) November 8, 2009〕 is a schoolteacher at the private, co-ed University of Chicago Laboratory Schools ("Lab Schools") who taught President Obama's daughter Malia Obama in the 5th grade.〔(The Daily Mail: "Meet the White House chef who went from cooking the first family's dinner to crafting national policy - Chef Sam Kass, 31, helps First Lady Michelle Obama with her national healthy-eating initiative ) February 20, 2012〕 His 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.〔〔(Friends Seminary: "Valentine Hertz Kass ’64" ) retrieved July 7, 2014〕 His maternal great-grandmother, Helen Valentine, founded Seventeen magazine.〔 Massoni, Kelley (Bringing Up "baby": The Birth and Early Development of "Seventeen" Magazine ) 2007〕 Kass attended high school at the Lab Schools,〔(Chicago magazine: "Sam Kass, the Chicago-Born White House Chef, Is One of D.C.’s Most Beautiful People" by Carol Felsenthal ) July 31, 2013〕 where he was on the varsity baseball team, and graduated in 1998.〔 He played baseball as a center fielder on a scholarship at Kansas City Kansas Community College and later transferred to Triton College.〔 He graduated with an A.B. in history in 2004 from the University of Chicago〔 where he also played NCAA Division III baseball as a right fielder with a career .366 batting average, ranking among the best in program history.〔(NCAA: "Mr. Kass Goes to Washington" ) October 4, 2013〕 In 2003 and 2004, Kass went to Austria to study cooking under Christian Domschitz.〔http://www.menusofchange.org/advisory-councils/biographies/sam-kass〕〔http://www.denverpost.com/ci_23530410/healthy-harvest-white-house-chef-revels-garden-table〕 During his junior year of college Kass worked at the restaurant 312 Chicago under chef Dean Zanella and in his senior year, spent abroad, he trained under chef Christian Domschitz in Vienna, Austria.〔(Star Chefs Magazine: "Chef Sam Kass of The White House - Biography" ) September 2010〕 He continued his training while traveling around the world including New Zealand, Italy and Mexico, before returning to Chicago in 2006〔 to work at the restaurant ''Avec''〔 under Executive Chef Paul Kahan.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sam Kass」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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