Some seek to preserve their dignity. Others to ensure that they seem like one of the people. However gregarious and easy they seem in public, Presidents are always highly self-consciously aware of how they appear in public and who is… Read More ›
Food
Orange Pie Here I Come: California’s Sweetest Slice of Sun
There’s something to the magic alchemy of golden sun and cool air of California that makes its oranges all the plumper and shinier. The sweet fruit has proved to be not only the crucial draw of the initial masses of… Read More ›
Hoosier Sugar Cream Finger Pie, from the Indy 500 to the Quakers: Pies of the States
Yesterday during this last weekend in May, almost always on Memorial Day, is the traditional time for the famous Indianapolis 500 Race. What does it have in common with the Quakers? Both are quintessentially Indianian and part of the enduring… Read More ›
Tennessee’s Jack & Mary Fudge Pie
Many people recognize the taste of Jack & Coke from a sip. One bite will never let you forget Jack & Mary. Since it first filtered the fresh spring water of local caves through a sour corn mash into barrels… Read More ›
Coffee Break With the Presidents
If any professional career has an excuse for a pot or two of coffee a day, its the Presidency. What with oil spills, failed North Korean missile launches, closing down one war before starting a new one, unfair spin, untrue… Read More ›
The Saucy Pie of Granite State Skinflints
Massachusetts is the big, important state which dominates New England. Tell that to New Hampshire. When it comes to Marlborough Pie, at least, New Hampshire has the granite edge on the Bay State. Kevin Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald, authors of… Read More ›
Marion Berry: Not the DC Mayor, the Oregon Pie
Washington, D.C.’s imprisoned and re-elected mayor (1979-1991; 1995-1999) is Marion Barry. Oregon’s longish, glossy, purple fruit is the Marion Berry. And that makes Marionberry Pie the unofficial though unchallenged State Pie of Oregon. Found in profusion along Willamette Valley vines each… Read More ›
A White House Super Bowl Party Menu of Favorite Presidential Foods
Whether it’s been an isolated President and First Lady at Camp David, their First Family and First Friends in the White House private quarters or a large rollicking crowd with conflicting team loyalties, White House Super Bowl parties are a… Read More ›
More Photos From the 2011 White House Christmas Party (Part II)
Here are some further captioned photographs to supplement the first photo-essay on 2011 White House Christmas Party hosted by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. Continue reading →
The White House Christmas Party in Rare Photo Glimpses
If a picture is worth a thousand words, here is a small book’s worth of stories about what one glimpses in the White House when one’s lucky enough to be among the few thousands of guests invited to the President’s… Read More ›
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