Who Will Be Top Chef in White House Kitchen?
President Obama is being stuffed with advice from foodies. Michael Pollan in the New York Times instructed President Obama on what the president “can and should do to remake the way we grow and eat our food.” Nicolas Kristof pleaded for renaming the Department of Agriculture the Department of Food. Now the fight has entered the White House kitchen. Alice Waters, Berkeley chef and high priestess of local foods, has tried to bully the Obama administration into hiring a new chef. Obama may have a few other problems, such as the economy, and the war in Iraq, and yet Waters, is pushing him to pick a chef who “thinks about food as being connected to nature, to time and place, who understands where food comes from….Even if you don’t taste the food, if you’re hearing this idea that good food should be a right and not a privilege, then that message is getting across. We’re talking about local seasonal food supporting the people who are taking care of the land. You’re inviting the guests to di
