Dinner with the President
By Alex Prud’homme
By Alex Prud’homme
By Alex Prud’homme
By Alex Prud’homme
By Alex Prud’homme
By Alex Prud’homme
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Praise
“A deeply researched and beautifully written book about how the presidential palate has helped shape America. I found it fascinating.” —Stanley Tucci
Dinner with the President is a splendid and captivating book about the power of food in American politics. “Breaking bread” around the table creates a unique and powerful setting to bring conflicting people together and achieve positive outcomes.” —Jacques Pépin
“Mr. Prud’homme has come up with a slew of entertaining believe-it-or-not tidbits…Dinner With the President opens with an epigraph by Anthony Bourdain: “Nothing is more political than food.” Mr. Prud’homme’s fascinating book drives the point home.” —Moira Hodgson, The Wall Street Journal
★ ”With much insight into human behavior, Prud’homme has confected an appealing, panoramic history of power dining for both foodies and students of politics and statecraft.” —Mark Knoblauch, Booklist; starred review
“An entertaining, well-researched, politically tinged gastronomic history.” —Kirkus Reviews
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