You can’t get past the first page of author Alex Prud’homme’s new Dinner with the President without stumbling across a glass of white Hermitage, in this case served at an elaborate secret dinner in 1790 hosted by then-future President Thomas Jefferson, prepared by Jefferson’s half-brother-in-law and Paris-trained slave chef James Hemings, and attended by rivals Alexander Hamilton and then-future President James Madison …

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