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Michelle Obama Launches White House Garden's Second Year
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyAfter planting some rhubarb with students Wednesday at the spring launch of the White House garden, first lady Michelle Obama, hands dirty, gathered the children and commanded the seedlings, "Grow." "Grow" she said again, throwing her hands at the plants with the flourish of a magician. With the kids, she danced around the new plants when Sam Kass, an assistant White House chef and food initiative coordinator (one of the overseers of the garden), walked by. "Did a little growing dance here," Mrs. Obama told Kass. Kass, in a white chef's coat and jeans, joined the six kids and Mrs. Obama as ...
Michelle Obama Planting Expanded Spring Garden
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst Lady Michelle Obama presides over the spring planting of a newly expanded White House kitchen garden on Wednesday afternoon. The expansion -- first revealed in Politics Daily last week -- will add several more rows of beds to the garden, originally planted last year. The expansion came at the request of Mrs. Obama. As happened last year, students from local schools will have a hand in tending to the vegetables throughout the growing season. Students from Bancroft in Washington and Hollin Meadows in nearby Alexandria, Va., will attend the planting event. Mrs. Obama visited the Virginia ...
Exclusive Video: White House Garden Survives, Thrives in Washington Winter
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyDespite a harsh Washington winter -- two blizzards and several feet of snow -- the recently harvested White House kitchen garden yielded a bounty of lettuce, spinach and a lot of turnips. "There was some concern about how our garden would do," said Sam Kass, an assistant White House chef and Food Initiative Coordinator in a video about the White House winter harvest, debuting exclusively on AOL's Politics Daily: "Nobody thought that the garden would survive," said Kass. It not only survived, it thrived, making First Lady Michelle Obama's signature project a four-season source of fresh ...
Iron Chef Special Used Ringers, Not Veggies From The White House Garden
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThe produce used on the Food Network's Jan. 3 Iron Chef of America two-hour special White House show was billed as being from the White House garden. But the show did not disclose that "stunt double vegetables" were used and not produce from the First Family's garden. The much ballyhooed show featured a cameo by First Lady Michelle Obama who invited the chefs to pick what they needed from the White House garden in the opening scenes. Mrs. Obama agreed to appear --and give the show access to the garden -- because the episode promoted her healthy eating themes and the garden, her signature ...
Obama White House Decorations: Traditional, With a Few Twists
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyThe 50,000 guests at White House parties and tours in December saw the Obama family's holiday decorations were traditional but with a few unique touches. First Lady Michelle Obama said the 2009 theme for the decorations is "Reflect, Rejoice and Renew." "Christmas and the New Year has always been a time to reflect on our many blessings, to rejoice in the pleasure of spending time with our family and our friends, and to renew our commitment to one another and to the causes that we believe in," Mrs. Obama said. "And I wanted to continue that part of the tradition during our first holiday season ...
Michelle Obama at Farmers Market Launch: 'Yay for Vegetables!'
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst Lady Michelle Obama helped launch the opening of a new farmers market in Washington on Thursday afternoon, one selling locally produced products. "I have never seen so many people so excited about fruits and vegetables," Mrs. Obama said to a crowd gathered in the drizzle. ...
Michelle Obama's Garden: The Inside Story
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThe Obama team is producing a series of videos taking folks behind the scenes in the White House, and the latest is about First Lady Michelle Obama's kitchen garden. The video, debuting on AOL News, includes clips of Mrs. Obama talking about the garden, one of her signature projects since it ties in with other goals on her agenda -- encouraging healthy eating and opening up the White House to Washington area residents. Students from a nearby school have been invited to the White House on several occasions to help in the garden. The featured figure in the video is Sam Kass, who has been ...
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By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyA few topics to toss around for the uppity Woman Up women. ...
Michelle Obama's Advice from Nancy Reagan
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyDaily Flotus (past and present edition) digest... We learn some of the advice former First Lady Nancy Reagan gave to First Lady Michelle Obama in the July issue of Vanity Fair, in a story headlined "Nancy Reagan's Solo Role." The magazine also reports that Mrs. Reagan would have liked to have been invited to the White House by President Obama when he lifted former President Bush's embryonic stem-cell research ban. ...
The Obamas, Living Out Loud
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyIs there anyone in America who doesn't know Michelle Obama planted a vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House? A Google search for the words "Michelle Obama garden" yields nearly 1.2 million hits. ...
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