The campaign has taken a toll not only on her cooking but on her weight. "I've gained so much weight now because I eat late and I'm so tired, it's just very hard," she said. "For someone who has always been thin, either you become neurotic about it or give up and say, when this is over I'll deal with it. I'll cut out wine.' "
For a trip to Colorado, where she joined her husband to celebrate her 66th birthday, she packed several good bottles. "The wine cellar is not bad at the farm," she wrote in a note to me.--N Y Slimes
If her husband becomes president, she said, she will fulfill the traditional role of first lady. Asked if she would cook in the White House, she said: "I know there is a tiny little kitchen somewhere there, and I know I'll make my sauces unless I can teach the big chef to make the sauces the way I like them: they have more garlic in them than most people like."
Maybe THAT'S why she and Flippin are always kiss-avoidant.