Michelle Obama’s crusade against sugar and fatty foods has inspired the White House pastry chef to pursue healthy cooking outside the first family’s kitchen.
Longtime executive pastry chef Bill Yosses has announced the “bittersweet” decision to leave the White House and move to New York, where he will teach people how to eat more healthfully, according to The New York Times.
Still, the 60-year-old chef — who, while cooking for the Obamas, had to replace “the usual blitzkrieg” of butter and cream with healthier ingredients like fruit purees, honey and agave — is not ready to give up the good stuff.
“I don’t want to demonize cream, butter, sugar and eggs,” he told the paper.
The chef called Michelle Obama “definitely an inspiring boss” and complimented her anti-junk-food campaign.
“She has done it with humor and good will, without preaching,” Yosses said about the first lady. “Just the way you would hope the ‘Mom in chief’ would do.”
Yosses was hired under the Bush administration in 2007 and will leave his post in June.