What You Missed In Obama Food News
Oh, our mediagenic president-elect! He is from Chicago! He eats! He's just like us! Here's what he was up to while I was on vacation:
• Significantly before I even got to the airport, he was eating on camera. Back in his salad days (har har) — then a state senator — Obama appeared on an unaired episode of Check, Please!. His never-before aired segment, set at Dixie Kitchen & Bait Shop, will show on WTTW on Friday, January 16th. (And because I am just that nerdy: no, it does not overlap with the BSG premiere.)
• The Trib's Terri Colby offers a tour of Obama's favorite Windy City eateries, from the oft-discussed Spiaggia and Topolobampo to Hyde Park mainstays like Medici and (my personal favorite) Valois. Yes We Can! See Your Food!
• And of course, since Barack is the Doer Of Miracles, he is finally integrating the fight against hunger with the fight against obesity. Yes, they're related.
• The blog Obama Food-o-Rama got a traffic-flooding mention in the New York Times. Guess what it's dedicated to!
• Obama just loves salted caramel. But that's not all! He likes smoked-salt caramels! Foodie cred = infinity.
• And at the diametric opposite of the food-snob spectrum, he also had a snack of some spam musubi — egg, sushi rice, seaweed, and spam.
