If you've stayed up watching convention speeches all this week and plan to next week as well, you, my friend, are a political junkie. The fact that you're reading Slashfood probably means that you're also a foodie. You're not alone. The LA Times recently published an article on political cookbooks, and there's a long and entertaining tradition.
From the "How to eat like a Republican" to the "Watergate Cookbook", to being the White House chef, the LA Times covers it all. There are even a couple of Axis of Evil cookbooks. It seems that wherever the worlds of food and politics collide, there's never a dull moment. What is some of your favorite politically motivated foodie literature?
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8-29-2008 @ 9:15PM
Monty Harris said...
I inherited a copy of "Who Says We Can't Cook" from 1955. It was put out by the Woman's National Press Club in Washington D.C. My great aunt was a political columnist for the NY Daily News at the time. It had many recipes from people in politics and the press. Some names that catch the eye include: Eleanor Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mrs. Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, Arthur Godfrey and my aunt Ruth Montgomery to name a few.
Many of the recipes are simple and very different. Fun to look through.
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