Posted on 05/19/2010 9:16:12 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
UPDATED FROM TUESDAY VERSION ABOUT RICK BAYLESS GUEST CHEFFING AT THE WHITE HOUSE WITH CLARIFICATION.... Clarification: Bayless at Gapers Block said he did not send his tweets from the White House kitchen. Bayless also sent a tweet out about my post. To clarify: Bayless tweeted about the upcoming dinner and about the White House kitchen, but not from the White House kitchen. My apology.
The lede below is what appeared in the print editions.
WASHINGTON -- Rick Bayless, the Chicago superstar chef, was tweeting from the White House kitchen about today's Obama White House state dinner honoring Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his wife, Margarita Zavala. Until the tweets stopped. The White House kitchen is for cooking, not tweeting.
Bayless' contemporary Mexican cuisine made his Frontera Grill and Topolobampo restaurants at 445 N. Clark a favorite of President Obama and first lady Michelle.
He was given the unpaid honor of being a guest chef, working the state dinner -- the second of the Obama administration -- alongside of White House House chef Cristeta Comerford.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.suntimes.com ...
Big Brother blocked his tweeting. It seems in this regime, even a chef can’t discuss what he is cooking.
I guess it’s possible some tweets got posted and deletedy shortly thereafter, but from reading them it doesn’t seem as if any of them were from the White House kitchen. Probably the reason they stopped suddenly is that he tweeted from his hotel room or taxi and then went off to the White House and was too busy cooking to tweet.
And now that I wasted my time typing that out, why is this a story?
Rush mentioned it at the top of his show—said that the chef had been “muzzled” to stop him tweeing about the high-calorie, decadent menu.
Michelle didn’t want it leaked she was serving 5 pound cheese burritos.....
They’re serving Mexican food? Why? Do they think Calderon doesn’t get enough of that already? Shouldn’t a state dinner be something more uniquely American, to treat a foreign guest to a taste of the country he’s visiting?
If our President was a guest at a state dinner in China, for example, you’d think they’d have one of their best chefs cook up some great examples of genuine dishes from all over China. They wouldn’t serve cheeseburgers.
“Tweet—Muy bien. Frijoles con arroz, y carne asada burritos, y shots of tequila por el presidente grande.”
Exactly. When he visited South Korea, they went out of their way to find the best chefs to serve him the best bulgogi they could make.
Yep. Like that. Something like alder-smoked salmon, or some genuine Cajun, or some BBQ. It’s almost an insult to do otherwise.
IMO, they should just send out for Taco Bell.
Just another case of mac daddies lies about everything he says.
While the out of work voters eat cake, max daddy and his guests dine high on the hog at tax payers expense.
Then this POS want to keep it from those who are paying the bill.
What arrogance.
Chicago chef Rick Bayless fired off a few final tweets Wednesday morning before scooting over to the White House to prep for the evening’s big state dinner for Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderon, and first lady, Margarita Zavala.
“Heading into the WH for another full day of creation,” Bayless reported. “Got my fingers crossed there are no hitches!”
About 200 guests have coveted invitations for dinner in the East Room, and an expanded group of guests will take in the after-dinner entertainment in a big white tent on the White House South Lawn.
Guest chef Bayless has been in Washington for two days getting ready for the big night. He’s got a black mole sauce that takes days to make and includes more than 20 ingredients.
Full details of the menu, though, were kept secret in the leadup to the dinner.
“GR8 cooking w WH staff yesterday,” Bayless tweeted early Wednesday. “Remarkable their organization, knowledge of protocol.”
That protocol, by the way, includes no tweets from the White House kitchen.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/19/AR2010051901825.html
You have it wrong, those 5 pound cheese burritos are all for her.
The rest of America must stick to the diet menu she decided was best for them.
Yikes!!
This tweeting stuff is hilarious. Limbaugh was talking about this. I’ve seen Rick Bayless on TV and he seems like the chatty type. I would never spend big money for Mexican restaurant food. Chinese and Vietnamese I would and for good solid American food at a steakhouse
Keep tweeting and I'll kick yo ass! Shut up and cook peon! Make me some hot tamales with guacamole!
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