This is delicious made with squirrels when camping out on a hunting trip
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JFK's Waffles, Adlai's Pie, Humphrey's Soup and 13 More Political Recipes. Political Pot Luck: A Collection of Recipes from Men Only, published in 1959 by the Peninsular Publishing Company in Tallahassee. It was edited by Meg Madigan, whose father was a Florida state comptroller and lobbyist. And she went all out for the cookbook, from governors to senators to media barons. Some of them can cook
The only recipe I want to try is JFK's for waffles, which somehow feels like a double entendre.
posted by bearwife at 2:20 PM on November 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by bearwife at 2:20 PM on November 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
Yeah, most of the other recipes are pretty uninspired.
I am a fan of spoonbread and am always looking for a good recipe.
(If you use masa harina instead of grits and add in green chiles, you have a completely different but equally delightful dish.)
I don't think this one will be a good recipe.
posted by Seamus at 2:30 PM on November 14, 2011
I am a fan of spoonbread and am always looking for a good recipe.
(If you use masa harina instead of grits and add in green chiles, you have a completely different but equally delightful dish.)
I don't think this one will be a good recipe.
posted by Seamus at 2:30 PM on November 14, 2011
That sauce sounds terrible, Frank.
posted by queensissy at 2:34 PM on November 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by queensissy at 2:34 PM on November 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
After today's insider trading reports can we get a recipe for Congressional Meat Pies?
posted by T.D. Strange at 3:18 PM on November 14, 2011
posted by T.D. Strange at 3:18 PM on November 14, 2011
List is useless without Gerald Ford's tamales.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 3:25 PM on November 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 3:25 PM on November 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
So were Ford's tamales Mississippi style, Yucatecan or Sonoran?
I MUST know.
posted by Seamus at 3:30 PM on November 14, 2011
I MUST know.
posted by Seamus at 3:30 PM on November 14, 2011
What a great find. Thanks for sharing!
I was a little surprised to see a curry dish being named as a favorite in 1959. I don't know if that would make it past the focus groups today.
posted by sevenyearlurk at 5:04 PM on November 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
I was a little surprised to see a curry dish being named as a favorite in 1959. I don't know if that would make it past the focus groups today.
posted by sevenyearlurk at 5:04 PM on November 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
Seems like the meringue on the brown sugar bars would be like cardboard after all of that - maybe that was the only way to get it to hold up in the humidity.
posted by halfbuckaroo at 5:10 PM on November 14, 2011
posted by halfbuckaroo at 5:10 PM on November 14, 2011
So were Ford's tamales Mississippi style, Yucatecan or Sonoran?
More the reverse.
Story is, Ford was campaigning in Texas and was served up a plate of tamales, still in the husk. Being a honky from Michigan, he mentally shrugged, picked up the tamale, and bit right through the cornhusk. What Ford learned from Texas: "Always shuck your tamales."
See also: George McGovern, uber-goy extraordinaire, campaining in New York. He stops for a hot dog or sandwich or some such from a deli, and the guy working it says "Kosher?" "Kosher," George answers. "Kosher and a glass of milk."
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 5:35 PM on November 14, 2011 [4 favorites]
More the reverse.
Story is, Ford was campaigning in Texas and was served up a plate of tamales, still in the husk. Being a honky from Michigan, he mentally shrugged, picked up the tamale, and bit right through the cornhusk. What Ford learned from Texas: "Always shuck your tamales."
See also: George McGovern, uber-goy extraordinaire, campaining in New York. He stops for a hot dog or sandwich or some such from a deli, and the guy working it says "Kosher?" "Kosher," George answers. "Kosher and a glass of milk."
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 5:35 PM on November 14, 2011 [4 favorites]
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posted by Seamus at 2:16 PM on November 14, 2011 [3 favorites]