Posted on 04/23/2018 12:04:24 PM PDT by simpson96
First Lady Melania Trump is embracing the spirit of bipartisanship for Tuesday’s State Dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron and French First Lady Brigette Macron — at least, when it comes to the menu and decor.
The Office of the First Lady released details about the Trump administration’s first state dinner on Monday, revealing a menu that features greens from the White House kitchen garden, which was planted by Michelle Obama in 2009, and a china service that will include pieces from Bush 43 and Clinton’s services.
The Clinton china services coordinates with the dinner’s gold and white color scheme while the Bush service will complement the green and white floral arrangements that will pepper the State Dining room. According to the White House, there will be over 1,200 branches from American-grown cherry blossoms lining the Cross Hall and the State Dining Room will be decorated with 2,500 stems of white sweet peas and 1,000 stems of white lilac.
The Trumps, the Macrons and their guests will dine on food that showcases “the best of America’s cuisines and traditions” with some French influence: the main course is a rack of spring lamb and Carolina Gold rice jambalaya cooked with celery, peppers, onions, and herbs from the South Lawn. Dinner will be served with a Chardonnay that is described as “the product of American and French collaboration” and a Pinot Noir that is fermented in French oak barrels. For dessert, they’ll have nectarine tarts with crème fraîche ice cream.
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According to Politico, no Democratic members of Congress were invited to the dinner and no members of the media were asked to attend.
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Moochelle’s garden should have been ‘reset’ when the Trump’s moved in.
That looks delicious. I love the crumbles on the edges and that crust looks just right.
Grits with left over Okra topping.
They can’t detach from the Obama’s..... since both of them don’t want them to.
It’s going to be a stunning dinner so proud that Melania is so involved in the planning and hosting this event. Second only to the kids, she loves doing this and right up her alley too!
Impressive. And yum.
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Melania Trump is pure class, and a vegetable garden is overall a good thing.
Personally, I would have plowed it over on January 21
Was it Laura Ingraham with a book/column, using Mama R’s voice, to gossip about the US Park Service coming in every morning to refresh/replace MO’s “garden”?
The Clintons are rumored to have wanted the silverware, not the china. I attended the Freepers unofficial Inaugural Ball which was called the Count The Silverware Inaugural Ball. It was great fun.
You should have heard my mom go on about Michelle’s garden supplying great produce two or three weeks after planting.
Oh I bet that was fun!
Tha's why they couldn't invite media or Dems. Not enough china to serve all.
And Michelle and Obama weren't exactly vegetarians....Kobe Beef is how much a pound?
You mean the Clinton's didn't steal all of it? I bet Hillary took a few sets for personal use so she can feel like she's President every time she sits down at the table.
If Hillary picked that china paternity wouldn’t surprise me. With the exception of the White house in the center it’s incredible gaudy. Hil never did have any taste.
We’ve had a pretty nasty winter in the east so I find it difficult to believe that garden has much going on.
She’s a real down home girl. Bet her family had a real garden when she was a child.
pattern not paternity
It’s all about attitude isn’t it.
I can hear the seams on Moochie’s pants screaming for help.
Looks like a hairball.
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