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Lead book review

Culinary cold war at the White House

20 January 2018

9:00 AM

20 January 2018

9:00 AM

‘Tell me what you eat and I shall tell you what you are.’ The best known adage in food literature, penned by the French politician and gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, divides all of us generally: the gourmands from the picky, the greedy from the careful, one nation from another, one culture from the next.

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