Easy to Access Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
by Alex Prud'Homme
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A wonderfully entertaining, often surprising narrative history of presidential food: from Washington's lack of it at Valley Forge to Trump's well-done steaks with ketchup--what they ate, why they ate it, and what it all means--from the co-author of My Life in France. The American presidents have been hosts to some of the most significant moments in our history over meals at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And during such occasions, our commanders-in-chief have understood the value of breaking bread with both friends and foes?Thomas Jefferson?s nation-building receptions in the new capital Washington, D.C.; Ulysses S. Grant?s state dinner for the king of Hawaii; Booker T. Washington?s groundbreaking supper with Teddy Roosevelt; Richard Nixon?s practiced use of chopsticks to pry open China; Jimmy Carter?s d?tente between Israel and Egypt at Camp David.Here, Alex Prud?homme invites readers into the White House kitchen to reveal the sometimes curious tastes of twenty-six of America?s most
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