NYT: In a Reality Cook-Off, Winner Will Be First Chef (conservo WH chef?)

[DeepModem Mom]

In a Reality Cook-Off, Winner Will Be First Chef
By MARIAN BURROS
Published: August 14, 2005


It is a reality cooking show with a very limited but influential audience.

More than six months since Laura Bush asked the executive chef to pick up his knives and leave the White House kitchen, she has interviewed a handful of candidates for the position but has yet to choose one. And because these are closed auditions with a few select guests at the tables, the search has become part of Washington's favorite parlor game: laying bets on the choice for a prominent job.

Since Walter Scheib III left in February, names have surfaced, disappeared and surfaced again as the White House staff, one of the city's best rumor mills, drops hints that change daily.

Two candidates, one from Texas and one already in the White House kitchen, seem to be on everyone's lists. But in the spirit of Judge John G. Roberts Jr., the Supreme Court nominee who appeared to come out of the blue, there are unmentioned chefs high on the White House list.

The best-known candidates, though, have obvious advantages. Chris Ward is the chef at Mercury Grill, a restaurant in Dallas that serves rack of veal as well as crabmeat enchiladas. A self-proclaimed conservative who supports the administration, Mr. Ward was summoned to the White House last month to prepare a second tasting for the Bushes....


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/politics/14chef.html

[Mari333]

1. The little king and queen eat well

priveledged bastards always do.

[short bus president]

2. 'Mr. Ward was summoned to the White House'

I suppose the boy king also had a royal taster sample the meal before he deigned to touch it...

[interupt]

3. Can you inform this ignorant Aussie why this is fucking news in the US?

[Cha]

5. Cause they'd rather talk about

this shite than report on how many really are dead from getting into bush's WAR ON IRAQ.

[DeepModem Mom]

6. Sometimes I feel like a break from life--and-death matters --

I guess the NY Times does also.

[Cha]

4. Stuff like this makes me

want to hurl.

bush and his god damn pickles deserve to eat roaches off the ground.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. Since Walter Scheib III left in February,...

So, I guess he went back to painting cars, eh?

[progressivebydesign]

8. Why was the chef fired? That's what I'd like to know.. n/t

[liveoaktx]

9. Interview question-What kind of spices do you use to cook cow balls?

Since it's George and our families favorite?

[Placebo]

10. Bushes hire first woman as White House head chef

U.S. First Lady Laura Bush, on a quest for the last six months to give White House menus a lighter, more American flair, has hired Philippine-born Cristeta Comerford as the mansion's new head chef, the first woman to hold the job.

After trying out a number of restaurant chefs and other candidates to replace former chef Walter Scheib, the White House settled on an insider in Comerford. She was promoted from assistant White House chef, a job she has held since 1995.

Ethnic and American cuisines are Comerford's specialties but she also knows the French classical cooking that her predecessor did well.

"She is able to do a wide array of dishes," said Susan Whitson, spokeswoman for the first lady. "In both their official dinners and personal menus, the president and the first lady are interested in healthy food with lots of fresh ingredients but that is also infused with a lot of flavor."

More...

:9 or :grr: ?

[KyndCulture]

11. more from the rats ass department...

sheesh.. who cares pickles..

Here's a novel idea, how about the white house serve them spoiled expired food with shrapnel and broken glass... compliments of Halliburton.

[u4ic]

12. And here she is

Peanut butter and anchovy sandwiches, anyone? :bounce:





for Vicar of Dibley fans only...

[TechBear_Seattle]

13. This is BIG news!

<mode='sarcastic'>I mean, a conservative Republican hires a woman to do the cooking! This should knock Cindy Sheehan off the liberal press!</mode>

Can you say, "Desperate", kiddies?

:crazy:

[jmowreader]

20. The "White House Chef" doesn't do a lot of cooking

The White House Chef is an administrator. She might do the entrees for big functions, but her main duties include managing the kitchen and its staff, planning menus around the five things the Shrub will eat, and ordering foodstuffs.

Assumedly not including pretzels.

[tocqueville]

14. more French fries ?

[deadparrot]

15. Wow. Amazing what they're doing for women...

:eyes:

[sniffa]

16. a huge Leap for women

[Inland]

17. Women as cooks. What WILL the vanguard think of next. nt

[theophilus]

18. Well, Pickles wanted a female Supreme Court nominee. George said,

"No" (or whoever made the decision on Roberts!). Pickles gets to pick the chef. Wow! I'll bet George always refers to her as "the cook", "the help", or "cookie". What news!

[barbaraann]

19. Kinder, kirche, kuche.

The three mainstays of German womanhood taught to Hitler Youth.