From gluttons to gastronomes, here’s what some of our presidents loved to eat.
“The president is both a symbol of the nation and a flesh-and-blood human being and his food choices bridge those disparate roles.”
A state dinner requires months of planning and is viewed as an event that can help formulate future international policies of an administration. By featuring the native foods of visiting diplomats, the meal can foster goodwill and potentially promote the president’s political agenda, observes the author, who notes that ghastly food could totally undermine a president’s legacy.While some presidents savored tossing a big state dinner, others were overwhelmed.
There’s a good food story behind virtually every president: Lincoln adored possum dip, Eisenhower was a squirrel meat man and Franklin Delano Roosevelt savored buffalo tongue as an appetizer.Bettmann Archive Described as “a timid, picky eater,” a big meal for the 28th president was clear soup, chicken salad, and strawberry ice cream. He simply ate to live. He once described with rare ardor-loving foods of his native Virginia – country hams, peach cobblers, butter and buttermilk, fresh eggs and hot biscuits, homemade ice cream, and plain white cake – but this was simple fare compared to what other presidents consumed.
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