Is it I'm[ortant for a candidate to be relatable to their constituents? Yes. Even better is that they cook which is always relatable. What would make for a good COTUS Cook Of The United States? Someone who loves cooking and a good sit down family meal. Someone like Kamala Harris.
Regular contributor Kim Severson wrote about the presidential candidate in yesterday's New York Times Wednesday Food section. A few presidents were known to cook. Dwight Eisenhower famously liked to grill steaks in the White House back yard. Abe Lincoln was known to put on an apron and help out. Yet Vice President. Harris goes the extra mile. She is in charge of her family's Sunday meals where she creates the family favorite spaghetti Bolognese. Yet she also embraces her South Indian roots. She has cooked with the actor Mindy Kaling where they made dosas, a type of crepe , popular with street vendors and a potato curry.Of course she has also make monster cookies with a young voter, Avery in Iowa. She also cooked apples and bacon with her Iowa's campaign chair. She made sure both ingredients were from Iowa. Unlike other candidates she also scrolls through YouTube to study videos. During the pandemic she took to Instagram where she got a lesson in egg cookery from famed chef Jose Andres.
Not surprisingly Ms Harris learned cooking from her mother Shyamala Gopalan. Theirs is a vegetarian cuisine thanks to their Hindi religion so Ms Harris grew up with vegetable samosas and dal, She also has favorites such as Marcella Hazan and Alice Waters cookbooks. She had even mentioned that she'd like to write her own one day on Jennifer Hudson's talk show.Her cooking skills are as smooth as her political ones. She's known to crack an egg with one hand and chopped an onion so well that it impressed chef Tom Colicchio. The Harris- Emhoff kitchen is more a kitchen belonging to a professional chef than a possible future president. She owns enamel skillets a gas range and a crock next to a stove overflowing with spatulas and spoons, Yet cooking is more than a hobby.It centers and grounds the busy pol.It makes her feel normal, especially after a busy week. There is nothing like cooking for her husband and bonus children. She feels in control with cooking whether it's making family recipes or dry brining a turkey with salt and pepper. If she is elected she will have to say goodbye to some of this. She can still cook but with an army of help to cut , chop and prep.
It will be a crazy race for the next few months. Luckily Vice President Harris can turn to her cooking for calm and serenity It helps dealing with the wildness of this presidential election.
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