All the presidents' menus

[struggle4progress]

~snip~ "Kraft singles on white bread was one of this President's most requested lunch items," says Walter Scheib, who, from 1994 until he was sacked by Laura Bush in early 2005, was Executive Chef at the White House. ~snip~

While the Clintons had been an inclusive group, who made staff a part of their extended family, the situation was distinctly different with the Bushes - from day one.

"With Laura it was simply, You're in a domestic position. We respect your professionalism, we like what you've done, everything is fine, but you're not our friend,'" says Scheib. "And a lot of my classic training was suddenly no longer necessary." ~snip~

Despite his compromises Scheib was asked to resign a few months into Bush's second term. It was a decision made by Laura Bush and initiated by her new social secretary Lea Berman. Scheib directs what ire there is in his book towards Berman with whom he had "an ill-fated relationship", finding her pushy, opinionated, contrary, and difficult. "She would keep coming into my office with cookbooks asking me to make specific dishes. Most of the books were fairly low-brow," he says disdainfully although he tried to comply with Berman's wishes. Nevertheless things remained tense between them and he was asked to resign. ~snip~

http://www.sundayherald.com/life/people/display.var.1411743.0.all_the_presidents_menus.php

[MADem]

1. Kraft singles on white bread, eh?

Jesus. Ya don't have to be rich to eat good food. Ya know, stuff that hasn't been processed to shit.

What a metaphor for his administration. Fake, manufactured cheese on cardboard bread...

[Neshanic]

2. Classy. I am waiting for photos of numb-nuts with a can of Cheese Wiz in his mouth.

[Endangered Specie]

9. They should have just hired the Blues Brothers

"Did you get ma cheez whiz boi?"

[TahitiNut]

3. "but you're not our friend" ... from the mouth of the Chimpress

In a phrase, the questionable 'virtues' of this corrupt clan are laid bare. Unless one's a 'friend,' they're expendable to the 'higher interests of the clan. This is the exclusionary mentality of a predator - a parasite on the body politic.

[fasttense]

8. Yes, quite expendable. It is called keeping the "help" in its place.

You are a mere and lowly cook do not expect kindness and consideration from your master. All that is missing is the crack of a whip.

[Raine]

4. I tried eating those Kraft singles

and they made me nauseous with a sick headache for the rest of the day. :puke:

[Kiouni]

6. I just read an article

about a New York councilman that took the food stamp challenge of living on $28 dollars a week. He said that he only really ate bread cheese peanut butter and at the end of the week he felt like hell. Explains a lot.


http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/05/city_politicians_epiphany_poor.html

[Kiouni]

5. I want to read his book now

great article too!

[cmkramer]

11. I finished it a few weeks ago

I'd recommend it. It's got quite a few recipes in it too.

He says that Laura's social secretary kept criticizing him because his food didn't look like the pictures in MARTHA STEWART LIVING. He tried to explain that food in magazines is "styled" to look a certain way but she kept telling him he didn't know how to cook.

[blogslut]

7. He called the man "Cookie"

Typical Bush degradation.

[displacedtexan]

10. Laura also got rid of the White House pastry chefs...

Then, last fall, Laura's new pastry chefs couldn't handle the
winter holiday schedule (Hell, they couldn't even bake flat
gingerbread pieces for the annual cookie White House, and
Laura had to ask Mesnier and Ramsdell to come back and help out.

GGGRRR!!!