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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Surrounded by a field of pumpkins, radishes, eggplants and heirloom tomatoes, First Lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday harvested the White House garden alongside several acclaimed chefs and a dozen 5th graders from D.C.'s Tubman and Bancroft elementary schools. The "Fall 2010 Kitchen Garden Harvest" is a continuation of the first lady's signature "Let's Move!" initiative -- a program aimed at ending childhood obesity within a generation, focusing especially on exercise and healthy foods. Mrs. Obama was assisted in the harvesting by chefs from the prestigious Bocuse D'Or Foundation -- which ...
The most powerful tool first lady Michelle Obama has in her childhood anti-obesity campaign is the bully pulpit and she used it Friday, urging professional chefs to volunteer in schools. She delivered the message with hundreds of chefs in white jackets gathered before her on the South Lawn of the White House under a broiling sun. Afterward, Mrs. Obama moved to the White House garden along with some of the chefs -- including celebrity cooker Rachel Ray, "Top Chef" host Tom Colicchio and the Food Network's Cat Cora -- and a few dozen students to pick homegrown produce. The garden is going ...
The White House is NOT getting a new chef (HT Al Dente). It would be bad form to lay off (in these dire economic times) the first Filipina White House chef. According to the Wikipedia article, Cristeta was hired in the Clinton administration and was promoted to top boss in 2005. The former executive chef held that position from 1994-2005, so spanning administrations is not uncommon. Foreseeing the most likely comment, no the video does not indicate whether she knows how to serve arugula. ...
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