<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> 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 =20