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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
“The Figuring It Out At Kitchen Tables”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Photo: Alex Brandon/AP
Happy Inauguration Day!!
Watching the ceremony today, I was very moved by poet Elizabeth Alexander’s poem, “Praise Song for the Day.” We all spend time figuring it out at our kitchen tables, I’m guessing …
And I was most amused by the fact that the recipes page (for the inaugural luncheon) is the most visited page on the inaugural website. First course? A seafood stew, followed by a “brace” of American birds (pheasant and duck) with sour cherry chutney and molasses sweet potatoes. Dessert was an apple cinnamon sponge cake with sweet cream glace. The menu was purportedly inspired by Lincoln, evoking the kinds of things that might have been eaten during his presidency. I’m not sure the term “brace of birds” should be used in a culinary context, though, since it basically describes the whole of a hunter’s kill, not a dining portion.
You can download the recipes from the Inaugural website. read more about the chef, Shannon Shaffer, and the luncheon here.
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