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I know we all visited this last year and couldn=27t figure out how to get
a presidential advocacy out of this information, but it=27s back. Maybe
we can this time. I saw this article on CNN=27s web site this morning.The remainder of the article was not applicable (on White House china).There=27s got to be some way for us to convince him what good it would do
all of us for him to bring this situation to light. That would end our
=22orphan disease=22 status.
What=27s cooking at the White House?
Get an inside look at the executive
mansion=27s dessert menu ... and the
china closet, too
June 17, 1998
Web posted at: 1:05 p.m. EST (1805 GMT)=20
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Political parties in Washington,
especially official festivities at the White House, are
famous for
serving up pomp and circumstance.=20
And since 1801, when John and Abigail Adams first
opened
the doors to the White House, important decisions have
to be
made over dinner ... and dessert.=20
That=27s the part that interested Chocolatier Magazine.
Their
research revealed some very distinctive presidential
preferences on sweets.=20
=22Andrew Jackson served a traditional cr=E8me
br=FBl=E9e, what they
called a =27burnt creme=27 at the time,=22 says the
magazine=27s Dede
Wilson.=20
Franklin Delano Roosevelt loved blueberries --
particularly in a
summer dish called Blueberry Chambord Icebox Pudding.=20
More than a century before, one of the nation=27s
favorite frosty treats began its rise to
fame at the White House. Ice cream was first brought to
the United States, Wilson
says, by Thomas Jefferson.=20
=22He had brought back (an ice cream maker) from France
-- he spent many years in Paris
-- (and) he told his cooks to put custard in this
contraption, and they made ice cream,=22
she says.=20
Life experience tends to show in presidential desserts.
During the Kennedy
administration, First Lady Jacqueline brought a
European flair to desserts, like p=E2te =E0
choux (cream puffs) and baked Alaska.=20
And President Jimmy Carter favored Pecan Maple
Diamonds, using a prime crop of his
home state of Georgia.=20
When Ronald Reagan was president, coconut desserts
ruled. =22He was a texture freak,=22
explains Wilson. =22He liked anything crunchy.=22=20
These days, White House desserts tend toward fruit.=20
=22President Clinton is allergic to chocolate, and
apparently dairy and wheat, so the
desserts are heavily fruit-based,=22 says Wilson.=20
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