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Psst. Chef Walter Staib is alive and well

Today's news of the death of former White House chef Walter Scheib has not gone unnoticed in Philadelphia.

Today's news of the death of former White House chef Walter Scheib has not gone unnoticed in Philadelphia.

Not because he cooked for the Clintons and Bush 43 but because his name sounds similar to that of chef Walter Staib, the very visible operator of City Tavern in Old City and host of A Taste of History on PBS.

Staib says his phone has been buzzing all day.

And he's been picking up, to the relief of people on the other end of the line.