When he asks for a vodka on the rocks,...

[wiley]

October 30, 2005
Questions for Ariel de Guzman
The Dish on the Bushes
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/magazine/30questions.html
Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON

Q: The recipes in your new book, "The Bush Family Cookbook," are surprisingly fattening. The Bush family recipe for mixed-vegetable casserole, for instance, combines frozen peas and green beans with three cups of mayonnaise and heavy cream. Isn't that unhealthful?

(snip)

You can't possibly see yourself as a serious cook.

No, ma'am, not at all. I wouldn't know what fresh saffron looks like. I'm not into research.

In that case, how did you end up as the White House cook for four years and now spending half the year living with George and Barbara Bush in Kennebunkport, Me., and the other half in Houston, cooking their meals?

I was supposed to be a high-school teacher, but I was a cook in the U.S. Navy because that was the only job I could get. You probably didn't know this, but the White House mess is manned by U.S. Navy cooks.

I see. And it was during your years in Washington that you befriended Jeb Bush, now the governor of Florida, who wrote a foreword to your new cookbook?

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[wiley]

1. Even this guy is running from *'s endorsement

This is really unbelievable stuff.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

2. Vodka on the rocks?

Is this a joke? I thought (tee-hee) that our fearless leader had sworn off the booze. Is he drinking openly now?

[funflower]

3. They're talking about 41.

[librechik]

4. I don't thinkso -this is the new cook that Laura just hired

she's gotta be talking about the Shrub--and vodka's the secret drinker's choice...

bu who knows? it should be thoroughly investigated, I think!

[Journeyman]

5. You need to read the piece. . .

this is not the new White House chef -- this is the chef who (as the article states) cooked at the White House for four years and now spends half the year with George and Barbara in Kennebunkport, the other half in Houston.

I think the most enlightening info from this article is that a Bush family cook doesn't want Shrub to endorse her new cook book because it would probably hurt sales.

[librechik]

7. yr right, it's late n/t

[Journeyman]

8. Yes, it is late. . .

and as I re-read what I wrote, it sounds a little harsher than I intended. I hope I didn't offend. . . it was not my intent.

[librechik]

14. no, no problem!

:pals:

I just want the shrub to be busted too much. It makes me make mistakes, and I appreciate a headsup. Thanks, Journeyman!

[leveymg]

6. While they're knocking 40K poor kids off free school lunches, 41 still has

a Secret Service detail serving him drinks? Is there any way to get these parasites -- the Bushes -- off the public dole?


House Panel OKs School Lunch Funding Cut
By LIBBY QUAID, Associated Press Writer
Fri Oct 28, 8:22 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051029/ap_on_go_co/food_farm_programs;_ylt=AuUmlQUSMDYduZM8DX9U6qwDW7oF


WASHINGTON - The House Agriculture Committee approved budget cuts Friday that would take food stamps away from an estimated 300,000 people and could cut off school lunches and breakfasts for 40,000 children.

The action came as the government reported that the number of people who are hungry because they can't afford to buy enough food rose to 38.2 million in 2004, an increase of 7 million in five years. The number represents nearly 12 percent of U.S. households.

"If there are cuts to be made, why should we make them on food stamps?" said Rep. David Scott (news, bio, voting record), D-Ga. "This is the meanest cut of all."

The cuts, approved by the Republican-controlled committee on a party-line vote, are part of an effort by the House GOP to curb federal spending by $50 billion. The food and agriculture cuts would reduce spending by $3.7 billion, including $844 million on nutrition, $760 million on conservation and $212 million on payments to farmers.

"The fact is, our country is going broke," said Rep. John Boehner (news, bio, voting record), R-Ohio. "We're spending money we don't have and passing it onto our kids, and at some point, somebody's got to say, `Enough's enough.'"

The $574 million reduction in food stamp spending would affect families who receive food stamps because they receive other non-cash government assistance. The change is estimated to shut up to 300,000 people out of the program.

The restriction also could take free meals away from an estimated 40,000 school children, because children in many states are automatically eligible for school meals when they get food stamps, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

The White House proposed the restriction earlier this year.

SNIP

[crikkett]

10. dude, all ex-prez's get this as part of their retirement.

a Secret Service detail serving him drinks? Is there any way to get these parasites -- the Bushes -- off the public dole?

It's for national security.

[truthisfreedom]

9. vodka from all the way round the world?

from, say... finland?

we need a president who can actually say "finnish."

oops... that's the way he claims he always says it.

[booksenkatz]

11. If I want a goddamn snack in the middle of the night in my own house

I will HAVE a goddamn snack in the middle of the night in my own house, I don't care what some howling decrepit reptilian evil manticore has to say about it with her "strict rules." To hell with her. I can't believe that anyone would listen to her, much less reproduce with her. Spawner of evil most foul.

[MarsThe Cat]

12. gee...what a surprise-

"...We ask them first if they are allergic to certain food. For one thing, Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia - he won't eat shellfish. He's a constant visitor to the residence, and he is a very nice guy."

i wonder what kind of things poppy smirk and the prince like to talk about...?

it's their world- we just live in it.

[unhappycamper]

13. wiley:

Please be aware that DU copyright rules require that excerpts of copyrighted material be limited to four paragraphs and must include a link to the original source.

TIA.

unhappycamper
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