Explore by Tags
Entries tagged with 'The White House'
Page 1 of 1
White House to Offer Kitchen Garden Tours to D.C.-area Schoolchildren
According to Obamafoodorama, "Starting immediately, most Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:30 a.m., elementary, middle, and high school students from the D.C. area will have the chance to go on a guided tour of the Kitchen Garden, which will include a viewing of the garden, and the White House beehive, with an explanation of what is currently being cultivated and growing practices—as well as health and nutrition information."...White House Does Not Serve Foreign Beer
Toward the end of the Boston Globe's story today about the whole Henry Louis Gates Jr. affair: "I look forward to meeting Sgt. Crowley under more pleasant circumstances, and having that beer," Gates told the Globe yesterday in an email, saying a date has not been set. He said he’s partial to Red Stripe and Beck’s. He may not get his pick, as they are foreign beers, which are not stocked at the White House, under a tradition dating to the Johnson administration. Hue beer would have totally irked LBJ, had it existed at the time. [via The Awl]...Live from the White House: Healthy Eating Demo for Kids
Streaming now from the White House website, a demo on healthy cooking for kids. Scheduled to appear: chefs José Andrés, Art Smith, and Spike Mendelsohn from Top Chef—along with White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford, of course....Two Sides of the Same Coin
Photographs: Wikimedia Commons, Washington Post Two items out of Sustainorgania are making the rounds on the food sites today. The first, more attention-grabbing one, on The Atlantic Food Channel, has Bill and Nicolette Hahn Niman (of Niman Ranch fame) calling on the Obamas to become chicken farmers. "The idea may sound far fetched, but is it, really? At the dawn of the 20th century, chickens were literally everywhere." The Bay Area ranchers would like to see "a flock of egg-laying hens for the White House grounds." This comes, of course, on the heels of the news about the new White House vegetable garden. As Eater cleverly put it, "Give those locavores an inch and they'll take a mile.... Also...Michelle Obama: The First Lady and a Serious Eater?
According to the New York Times, Michelle Obama has taken on healthy, delicious, and local food as one of her main issues. The serious eaters at world headquarters here certainly second that emotion and support her efforts, and how can we not love and cherish a first lady who eats (and talks up) local and still takes her staff to Five Guys for a burger and fries? In fact, she says the White House kitchen can rustle up "a mean batch of french fries" (fresh, we're sure) when called upon. Oh, yeah. She and our president also indulge their craving for their favorite Chicago pizzeria. So Michelle Obama likes healthy and delicious local food, burgers, and pizza. Here are some...In Videos: Michelle Obama, Cristeta Comerford Give Tour of White House Kitchen
First Lady Michelle Obama and White House chef Cristeta Comerford give D.C.-area culinary students a tour of the White House kitchen before the White House dinner for governors. Comerford: "It takes only two days. But the planning stage is the longest stage. And of course connecting with the growers, with our purveyors, and with our farmers. Because for any menu to be successful, those are the key relationships you have to build." [via Eat Me Daily]...Sam Kass, the New Assistant White House Chef; Is Everybody Happy Now?
How deft a politician is Barack Obama? Pretty damn deft if you ask me. In fact, I would say he's downright Solomonic. Consider his latest bits of organic food politics sleight-of-hand: Instead of bowing to well-intentioned pressure from Alice Waters, Danny Meyer, and Ruth Reichl in choosing a White House chef, he managed to retain the current Filipino-American White House chef Cristeta Comerford. Comerford, according to her predecessor Walter Scheib, served lots of organic vegetables at the White House at Laura Bush's behest. Some of the vegetables even came from a White House garden. Scheib apparently pigeonholed Alice Waters at one of the Inauguration benefit dinners to inform her of all this. Now, to make all the Michael Pollan disciples...In Videos: A Short History of the White House Garden
This cute video gives a quick history of the various gardens that presidents have planted on the White House grounds, from the first one, planted by John Adams in 1800 to Eleanor Roosevelt's WWII Victory Garden. Plenty of small-talk fodder in here. For instance, did you know that the White House once had an orangery? I do have to warn you that what starts out as a neat little source of garden-related trivia does turn in to an "eat local" nag around the two-minute mark. Video, after the jump....Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
Today's Specials
8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
Continue reading »
BraveTart: Make Your Own Butterfingers »
Sandwiched: Crisp Grilled Cheese »
Recently in Talk
Recently in SE Blogs
Most Emailed
Knead the Book: 'The Italian Baker'
How to Make Heart-Shaped Hard-Boiled Eggs
Spicy Peanut Noodle Salad with Cucumbers, Red Peppers, and Basil (Vegan)
Cereal Eats: Kashi Heart to Heart
The Secret Ingredient (Parsley): As-Good-As-Cole-Slaw Cabbage and Parsley Salad
Serious Reads: An Extravagant Hunger, by Anne Zimmerman
