Description: Dinner With the President : Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House, Hardcover by Prud'Homme, Alex, ISBN 1524732214, ISBN-13 9781524732219, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "Perhaps the most significant meals in the world have been consumed at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by the presumptive leaders of the free world. Thomas Jefferson had an affinity for eggplant and FDR for terrapin stew. Nixon ate a lump of cottage cheese topped with barbecue sauce every day and Obama regularly had arugula. Now, Alex Prud'homme takes us to the dining tables of the White House to look at what the presidents chose to eat, how the food was prepared and by whom, and the context in which the meals were served, making clear that every one of these details speaks volumes about both the individual president and the country he presided over. We see how these gustatory messages touch on not only sometimes curious personal tastes, but also local politics, national priorities, and global diplomacy-not to mention all those dinner-table-conversation-taboos: race, gender, class, money, and religion. The individual stories are fascinating in themselves, but taken together-under the keen and knowledgeable eye of Prud'homme-they reveal that food is not just food when it is desired, ordered, and consumed by the President of the United States"--
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Book Title: Dinner with the President : Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
Number of Pages: 512 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: Presidents & Heads of State, History, North America, United States / General
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 1.5 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Cooking, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 31.9 Oz
Author: Alex Prud'homme
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6.7 in
Format: Hardcover
