Continuing the new 2009 tradition of Presidents visiting popular local burger joints, this past weekend fmr. President Bill Clinton paid a visit to Z Burger (see my review HERE). The irony? He was in town to speak at a conference on obesity prevention and control. So what did Bill Clinton order? A double hamburger with [...]
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A new documentary, entitled “Food Inc.” is scheduled to be released in NYC, L.A. and San Francisco on June 12th, and will hopefully be shown soon around the rest of the country. The film’s website describes the documentary as a film that: Lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly [...]
Update: Some moronic right-wing media pundits are trying to attack/make fun of Obama for ordering his burger with spicy mustard. Politico reports that yesterday afternoon, President Obama and Vice-President Biden stopped into Ray’s Hell Burger, a burger joint just up the street from my office. For those of you outside DC or unfamiliar with this [...]
I’m sure many of you were closely following the Inauguration this morning, as I was, knowing the historical impact of this incredible event. Then, like me, once the event was over, you probably thought, what will President Obama’s first meal be? Like everything else on this day, these details have been planned for a long [...]
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Over the weekend, President-Elect Barack Obama dropped in to DC-institution, Ben’s Chili Bowl to grab a bite to eat with DC Mayor Adrian Fenty. For those of you who know DC food, you know that this is a BIG deal. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert via DCist. Ben’s Chili Bowl is famous for their half-smoke, which is [...]
In the seemingly never-ending string of Barack Obama related food stories, comes the news that for the next month, Ben & Jerry’s is renaming its Butter Pecan flavor “Yes Pecan.” All proceeds from sales of the ice cream during January will be donated to the Common Cause Education Fund. What took you so long Ben [...]
Footage has surfaced of the President-Elect appearing on a restaurant review show called Check, Please! which bills itself as “America’s first real-people restaurant review show.” The segment is from 2001, when Obama was just a wee State Senator. However the episode that Obama was part of never aired. In this radio clip from WBEZ, the [...]
An article at The Huffington Post notes that a New York Times reporter observed on Sunday that while on a golf outing in Hawaii, President-elect Obama ordered spam musubi. Wikipedia describes spam musubi as: a very popular snack and luncheon food in Hawaii made in the tradition of Japanese onigiri, also known as a musubi. A Spam musubi [...]
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In February, when news of Barack Obama’s eating habits and favorite foods were scattered, sparse, and damn near impossible to find, So Good scoured the internet in order to put together a post on Barack Obama’s favorite foods. Since that time, I’ve seen the post widely cited in stories about Obama’s favorite foods, from blogs [...]
