New Book Alert: “Dinner with the President: Food, Politics and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House”

DINNER WITH THE PRESIDENT is a narrative history of American food, politics, and twenty-six presidents, from George Washington starving at Valley Forge in 1777 to Donald Trump’s burger banquets, and Joe Biden’s “performance enhancing” ice cream in 2022. The White House is the most important home in the world, and the meals served there communicate…

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Big News – RBG filmmakers next subject is Julia Child!

After charting Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s rise to the top of the legal world, the filmmaking team behind “RBG” is reuniting to tell the story of a different kind of trailblazer: Julia Child, the television chef and cookbook author who taught America how to eat. Co-directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen will examine Child’s unconventional life, one that saw her seize…

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Paul Child photo show, FRANCE IS A FEAST, at CIA/Copia in Napa, CA

Next time you’re in Napa CA check out our Paul Child photo show at the CIA at Copia, and see a young Julia Child discovering French food, and herself, in postwar Paris and Marseille — it’s free, and runs through 9/2/19 On Tour: France is a Feast: the Photographic Journey of Paul & Julia Child…

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Chef Julia Child’s biographer recalls his great aunt and uncle

Back in the halcyon days of August, the esteemed Ellsworth American was kind enough to send reporter Kate Cough to my reading at the Northeast Harbor, Maine, Library. Her report begins like this …   NORTHEAST HARBOR —When Julia Child got her first microwave oven “it was this magical space-age thing from NASA,” says her grandnephew Alex…

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