When the dining is about high-stakes diplomacy, the menu is chosen with guests’ needs and preferences in mind. The state dinner, the third of the Biden administration, will be mostly vegetarian, in keeping with the dietary restrictions of its Indian guest.
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This isn’t the first mostly meatless state dinner to be held at the White House. Of course, when the dining is about high-stakes diplomacy, the menu is chosen with guests’ needs and preferences in mind . When the Obamas in 2009 hosted Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh, the menu was largely vegetarian and the president toasted the honoree with what appeared to be a glass of water.
Curtis said the call from the White House to act as a guest chef was an honor — but a source of understandable stress. “You must understand the pressure I’m under standing here before you — but it’s the kind of pressure that’s also an elation,” she said. “When you are asked by the first lady to come join her at the White House, it’s a feeling I hope many chefs get to have.”
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