Cynthia D. Bertelsen's Gherkins & Tomatoes
A Writer's Musings on Nature and Culture, Since 2008
According to an e-mail from the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, the 2009 Inaugural Luncheon looks like this. Note that recipes are also included; click for a .pdf file of the recipes. Around 200 guests will attend this exclusive luncheon in Statuary Hall. Design Cuisine, a top-flight caterer in Washington, designed the menu, which…
Continue reading ➞ Inaugural Luncheon 2009: Menu and Details
If the presidential campaign and election of President-elect Barack Obama revered a patron saint, Abraham Lincoln would be the man. The great American poet and Lincoln biographer, Carl Sandburg, tells a story about Lincoln and gingerbread in his Prairie Years II, a story that Abe told in his fourth debate with Stephen A. Douglas -…
Continue reading ➞ “A New Birth of Freedom”: Senator Feinstein Announces 2009 Inaugural Theme
In the throes of the 2008 election campaign, I decided to do a little looking into what the candidates, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain, eat when no one's watching. (Chili for Obama and ribs for McCain - hmmm, wonder if there's any Freudian, Jungian undertones there?) Such musings lead, naturally, to a perusal of…
Continue reading ➞ All the Presidents’ Tables: Abraham Lincoln’s Inaugural Menus
