Two special DWP events in NYC next week

Dear Readers, I’ll be discussing my new book, DINNER WITH THE PRESIDENT: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House, at two special events next week. I hope you’ll join me at one or both of them: On Weds 3/22, starting at 6:30 (doors open 6:15), I’ll be talking about the…

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Hear-ye, Hear-ye: Upcoming Events in NYC, March 2023

On Weds 3/22/23, I’ll be at the Stavros Niarchos branch of the NY Public Library, 455 Fifth Ave, 7th Fl, 6:30-8PM, in conversation with Assistant Director Rebecca Federman. https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2023/03/22/alex-prudhomme-author-dinner-president-food-politics-and-history-breaking. On Fri 3/24, I’ll discuss my book with the ebullient PBS chef Sara Moulton at the National Arts Club, at 6PM. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dinner-with-the-president-an-evening-with-alex-prudhomme-tickets-539648863277 If…

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Vogue: What Jackie Kennedy Ate in a Day

Jackie Kennedy took her breakfast in bed. Every morning, a White House butler brought a tray of toast with honey, orange juice, and coffee with skim milk. For lunch, the first lady had a cup of broth and a slim sandwich (which, on occasion, was grilled cheese.) Her dinner of choice? Cold poached salmon, followed…

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Wine Spectator: ‘Dinner with the President’ Spills New and Old Tales of White House Wines

You can’t get past the first page of author Alex Prud’homme’s new Dinner with the President without stumbling across a glass of white Hermitage, in this case served at an elaborate secret dinner in 1790 hosted by then-future President Thomas Jefferson, prepared by Jefferson’s half-brother-in-law and Paris-trained slave chef James Hemings, and attended by rivals…

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NY Post: Here’s What Abe and Teddy Liked to Eat

A state dinner at the White House is never simply a meal for the president and his hungry VIP guests. Rather, it’s a “forum for politics and entertainment at the highest level,” writes author Alex Prud’homme in “Dinner with the President: Food, Politics and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House,” (Knopf.) “The…

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In my NYT “By the Book” Q+A, I describe the books I’ve read, how I organize them, and the dinner party I wish I could have attended

What books are on your night stand? I have a colorful pile of books that is slowly accreting by my bed, and occasionally sets off a landslide. At the moment the stratum includes: George Saunders’s “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain,” Geoff Dyer’s “The Last Days of Roger Federer,” Toni Tipton-Martin’s “Jubilee” cookbook,…

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Amazon on The Ripple Effect: “a masterwork of investigation and dramatic narrative … a major achievement.”

AS ALEX PRUD’HOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America. From this spark of interest, Prud’homme began what would become an ambitious quest to understand the evolving story of freshwater. What…

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