White House Noshes: What Presidents Really Eat

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jefferson ate capon, Eisenhower craved squirrel soup and Grant had a habit of throwing bread across the table. This week, we go into the White House with Alex Prud’homme to hear culinary stories from presidential history, like how Julia Child charmed her way into a state dinner and why Eleanor Roosevelt may have used Jell-O salad to get revenge on FDR. Plus, the late Raghavan Iyer reflects on curry, Indian cuisine and his legacy as a culinary educator; Alex Aïnouz experiments with AI in the kitchen; and we learn a recipe known as “killer spaghetti.”

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Chris Kimble from Milk Street.
0:03.0	You know, when I travel for work, I come across home cooking.
0:06.9	It's not really exotic per se.
0:08.6	It's what folks are cooking and eating every day.
0:11.4	But it's true, the flavors and ingredients techniques
0:13.6	are new, at least to me.
0:15.8	But I also relearn many of the basics.
0:18.1	For example, in Paris, I learned to boil an egg.
0:20.5	In Mexico City, I learned how to make a cake in a blender
0:23.8	and chang my Thailand.
0:25.1	I learned how to grill a chicken.
0:27.4	It turns out that you are, in fact, a much better cook
0:30.1	than you think.
0:31.1	You just need a little bit of inspiration.
0:33.2	So if you want to learn something old and something new,
0:36.3	please join us at Milk Street Member dot com.
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0:42.2	to everything Milk Street, from recipes to videos,
0:45.1	from podcasts to TV shows, from online classes,
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