Whe need to get to the Hate Crime that’s at the heart of this story.
Way to go, Bill!! No sugar tonight for moochelle.
“I am also so grateful to him for his outstanding work, not just as the White House pastry chef, producing the most delectable creations for everything from birthday celebrations to state visits, but also as a key partner helping us get the White House kitchen garden off the ground and building a healthier future for our next generation. I wish Bill and his husband, Charlie, all the best in their future endeavors,” Michelle Obama said.
The openly gay chef...”
...I’m openly straight and nobody seems to care! How “openly gay” is he anyway? Does he attach “I’m gay” to everything he says?
Telling a world class pastry chef how to make pastry takes a lot of crust.
I’ll bet the real reason is that he knows that she’s scarfing down “bad” food on the side by the truckload and has had lipo suction to hide it.
When this first caught my eye I quickly looked at who was posting it, thinking it was John Semmons.
If this were fiction, no one would believe it.
This would actually be news if he was a “straight” pastry chef.
An artist should use the best tools for his work, not the choice of some opinionated outsider.
I stand with his decision.
He should start a wedding cake business.
Marxists again demonstrating that they are never happy unless someone else is unhappy!
Apparently, Wookies don’t like cookies.
I just took a stick of butter out of the freezer. 36 oatmeal cookies for a snack tonight.
May 11, 2010
MICHELLE OBAMA’S first meeting with the White House cooks was nerve-racking for the pastry chef, Bill Yosses.
“The most surprising day of my life,” said Mr. Yosses, who was hired by Laura Bush in 2007.
He said that Mrs. Obama stipulated that dessert would be a rarity, not routine, at family meals, and that portions should be scaled down.
“Maybe I should have been worried about my job,” he said. “But I was just exhilarated.”
In the intervening months, because of Mrs. Obama’s campaign for healthy eating, the first family’s day-to-day meals have taken on national significance. And as his responsibilities have broadened to include apprentice beekeeping, weeding and the pursuit of the perfect pie crust (it includes lard, not Crisco), Mr. Yosses has blossomed along with his role.
On a recent sunny morning, he picked clumps of mint and tended his rhubarb beds in the small garden on the South Lawn. An armed member of the Secret Service’s counter-assault team emerged from a stand of blooming dogwood trees, eyeing him protectively, just as Mr. Yosses eyed tiny sprouts destined for a state dinner on May 19.
Mr. Yosses’ 12-hour days are occupied with the slog familiar to any chef, baking pastries for morning meetings in the West Wing (“which no one ever eats,” he said), adjusting the day’s menu to incorporate ingredients from local farmers (whose identities are secret for security reasons); planning for events like Halloween (as a compromise between nutrition and tradition, last year the Obamas handed out trail mix, cookies and M&M’s).
Mr. Yosses’ most recent mission is changing the White House tradition of the bottomless cookie plate. (Among White House journalists, President Clinton was known for going straight from a grueling run into the pastry kitchen. Only part of it is visible through a window, but reporters outside recognized him by his sneakers.)
To edge out the cookies, Mr. Yosses decided to create a child-pleasing crunchy granola bar without nuts, chocolate or white sugar. “We went through many tastings on this one,” he said in his skinny galley kitchen, patting the final result, a mix of toasted oats, sesame seeds and chewy dried fruits into a sheet pan.
“This is Mrs. Obama’s house,” Mr. Yosses said, when pressed for details. “It’s not my place to say what dessert she might serve.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/dining/12yosses.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Hey, it’s honorable enough. He left over what is euphemistically called “professional differences.”
This calls for a genuine ROTFLMAO!
dittos, I will say it again, ROTFLMAO!
President Obama has a special nickname for his pastry chef, Bill Yosses.
“The President calls Bill ‘The Crust Master,’ “ Michelle Obama revealed last year at the Governor’s Dinner preview event in the White House Kitchen, “because he’s a big pie guy, and he has some of the best pies and tarts that come out of this place, and the fillings are just perfection – which is a problem.”
But the nickname isn’t a problem for Yosses, who tells PEOPLE that his “apple pie is certainly a crowd pleaser.”
