July 26, 2004

Favorite Presidential Recipes Mesnier Did Prepare

Jimmy Carter -- Rosalynn's peanut-cashew brittle, with Carter peanuts, of course. "Terrible peanuts. You can get better ones in any supermarket. And cashews in peanut brittle? Please, mon cheri."

Ronald Reagan -- Schraft's vanilla ice cream flown in from Santa Monica and drenched in a chocolate sauce recipe handed down from Reagan's maternal grandmother. "You mixed cocoa with water and a mountain of sugar and then you cooked the mess until it was so thick that when you put it on the ice cream, it immediately congealed into a gummy mess that stuck to your teeth. Ate it at least three times a week."

George H. W. Bush -- Duncan Hines Yellow Cake covered with Duncan Hines Ready to Use Chocolate Icing. "Never got tired of it. Could eat half a cake and drink a quart of milk at a single sitting. If he was bingeing on yellow cake, you knew things were tense in the Situation Room."

Bill Clinton -- His mother-in-law's creme brule. "It was that dreadful faux creme brule recipe found in so many American cookbooks, and not even a faithful version at that. But he would have eaten it after ever evening meal, seven days a week if I had cooperated. My creme brule is far superior, but he preferred the other one. He was always polite about it, but firm."

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