Alex prud homme biography of barack obama

DINNER WITH THE PRESIDENT is a narrative history of American food, politics, and twenty-six presidents, from George Washington starving at Valley Forge in to Donald Trump's burger banquets, and Joe Biden's “performance enhancing” ice cream in The White House is the most important home in the world, and the meals served there communicate many things: the meals our leaders eat, who prepares and consumes them, and the context of presidential gatherings semaphore one set of signals; the Chief Executive’s food policies send a different set of signals.

Alex prud homme biography of barack obama

Taken together, these messages touch on everything from personal nutrition to the evolution of American taste (squirrel stew, jellybeans, kale), local politics, global diplomacy, climate change, war, race, class, gender, and the like.

At the White House, every meal, every bite, has consequences – some intended, some not.

This book was inspired by a series of events. The first was Julia Child’s televised vi