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"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote ...
> From
> http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/01/19/...r-menu/?hpt=T2
>
> Top Chef Masters winners Rick Bayless and Marcus Samuelsson can keep their
> knives packed.
>
> Though the two provided assistance at state dinners in the past, White
> House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford and Executive Pastry Chef Bill
> Yosses will be helming the kitchen themselves tonight. They'll also be
> bucking the precedent set when the aforementioned chefs served chutney and
> curry to the Indian Prime Minister and Oaxacan Black Mole and jicama to
> the President of Mexico.

IMO, that was dumb and even condescending. Unless, of course, the guests
requested that. When I travel, I want to sample local foods.


>
> Tonight's menu, at the request of Chinese President Hu Jintao's
> delegation, will be an all-American feast featuring last summer's harvest
> of honey and produce from the White House's kitchen garden.
>

That sounds like a good idea.


> <snip>

>
>
> So where do you suppose the White House honey is featured? The carrots?

Probably, or the lemon sorbet.