Dear Readers, I’ll be discussing my new book, DINNER WITH THE PRESIDENT: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House, at two special events next week. I hope you’ll join me at one or both of them: On Weds 3/22, starting at 6:30 (doors open 6:15), I’ll be talking about the…

On Weds 3/22/23, I’ll be at the Stavros Niarchos branch of the NY Public Library, 455 Fifth Ave, 7th Fl, 6:30-8PM, in conversation with Assistant Director Rebecca Federman. https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2023/03/22/alex-prudhomme-author-dinner-president-food-politics-and-history-breaking. On Fri 3/24, I’ll discuss my book with the ebullient PBS chef Sara Moulton at the National Arts Club, at 6PM. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dinner-with-the-president-an-evening-with-alex-prudhomme-tickets-539648863277 If…

Alex Prud’homme’s new book covers everything from Eisenhower’s love for squirrel stew to Obama’s penchant for arugula, and dishes on state dinners, diplomacy and the White House kitchen During the Civil War, Abe Lincoln would snack on apples, cornbread, raw honey on the comb and other favorites from growing up on the Kentucky frontier, while…

Jackie Kennedy took her breakfast in bed. Every morning, a White House butler brought a tray of toast with honey, orange juice, and coffee with skim milk. For lunch, the first lady had a cup of broth and a slim sandwich (which, on occasion, was grilled cheese.) Her dinner of choice? Cold poached salmon, followed…

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…

A state dinner at the White House is never simply a meal for the president and his hungry VIP guests. Rather, it’s a “forum for politics and entertainment at the highest level,” writes author Alex Prud’homme in “Dinner with the President: Food, Politics and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House,” (Knopf.) “The…

What books are on your night stand? I have a colorful pile of books that is slowly accreting by my bed, and occasionally sets off a landslide. At the moment the stratum includes: George Saunders’s “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain,” Geoff Dyer’s “The Last Days of Roger Federer,” Toni Tipton-Martin’s “Jubilee” cookbook,…

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