Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House

Update: 2025-12-01

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Some of the most significant moments in American history have occurred over meals, as US presidents broke bread to strengthen alliances, diffuse tensions, and broker peace: Thomas Jefferson’s nation-building receptions; Richard Nixon’s practiced use of chopsticks to pry open China; Jimmy Carter’s cakes and pies that fueled a détente between Israel and Egypt at Camp David. Author Alex Prud’homme joins David M. Rubenstein to discuss the political power wielded by the White House kitchen.

Recorded on June 30, 2024

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Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House