Below is a look at Obama's first state dinner. There's an Indian twist to the menu since the Indian Prime Minister was in town. I always find it funny that they would want to serve Indian food as it'll probably be quite awful compared to the stuff they get back home. If I had friends from Italy in town, I probably would never take them to an Italian restaurant in NYC. But I digress...The dinner was prepared by guest Chef Marcus Samuelsson of Aquavit fame and White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford.
- Potato and eggplant salad
- White House arugula with onion seed vinaigrette
- 2008 Sauvignon blanc Modus Operandi, Napa Valley, California
- Red lentil soup with fresh cheese
- 2006 Riesling, Brooks "Ara"
- Wilamette Valley roasted potato dumplings with tomato chutney
- Chick peas and okra or green curry prawns with caramelized salsify with smoke collard greens and coconut aged basmati
- 2007 Grenache Beckman Vineyards, Santa Ynez, California
- Pumpkin pie tart
- Pear tatin
- Whipped cream and caramel sauce
- Sparkling Chardonnay, Thibaut Janisson Brut, Monticello, Virginia
- Petits fours and coffee
- Cashew brittle
- Pecan pralines
- Passion fruit and vanilla gelees
- Chocolate dipped fruit
3 comments:
if this is the whole menu for a freakin' "STATE DINNER"... i'm embarrassed for the Obama Administration... we all should be embarrassed...
a couple greens from the garden outside... a few bottles of napa wine... WTF are they thinking...
you are entertaining the head of the 2nd largest country in the world... how do you not want to show off the very best of what America has to offer...
if there was a position at the white house kitchen for a master purchaser... and/or menu consultant, i sure wouldn't have dished out that poor excuse of a menu...
I kinda thought the same thing, but then again, showing off too much is tacky. Like when you see marble palaces, gold toilets, diamond encrusted Mercedes, etc. in other countries yet most are in poverty. And notice the menu is vegetarian, which is how a lot of Indians eat, so you can't do as much.
vegetarian: i can understand
but it is the menu for a state dinner. weaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakk!
the blue bloods of india, i am sure eat very well.
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