Dinner With the President. Breaking Bread at the White House
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Special for the day after Thanksgiving. What a president eats can tell you a lot about the man. What he serves to people at the White House is also revealing. All that is the subject of a new book by Alex Prud’homme, Dinner With The President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House. You can buy it here. Prud’homme is the author, with his great aunt Julia Child of My Life in France, a New York Times bestseller and the inspiration for half of the movie, Julie and Julia. He's also written several important nonfiction books so he is well positioned to look at food and politics at the White House.
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| 1:06.7 | Hello friends, good to see you again on the Bill Press pod and on this day after Thanksgiving. |
| 1:13.6 | And you know, of course, over this Thanksgiving holiday, our thoughts turned especially to food. So as a special treat, we invite you back today to one of the conversations I enjoyed the most this year on the Bill Press pod, a conversation all about food and presidents. |
| 1:26.6 | Yes, presidents and food, because like every other |
| 1:31.1 | house in America, the White House runs on food. And that's all spelled out in a new book |
| 1:37.3 | out earlier this year called Dinner with the President by Alex Prudong, who co-authored |
| 1:43.7 | My Life in France with Julia Child. |
| 1:47.0 | Alex invites us into the White House kitchen and then takes us on a gourmetz tour of historic |
| 1:52.8 | White House dinners, favorite foods of presidents from Washington to Obama, which presidents |
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