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White House Garden Isn’t Just for ShowPosted on Feb 1, 2012
While the first lady runs the talk show gantlet to promote her healthy lifestyle agenda, the garden she planted on the South Lawn of the White House is producing the ingredients for seasonal meals served to the first family and its guests. AP profiles White House chef Cristeta Comerford, who says she was so inspired by the project she planted her own garden at home. Rather than import ingredients from faraway places, a process that requires special security protocols, Comerford plans meals based on what’s growing on the lawn. —PZS
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By PatrickHenry, February 1 at 3:15 pm Link to this comment
Enough fertilizer in this town.
Report thisBy Fibonacci65, February 1 at 1:49 pm Link to this comment
Apologies to author—gantlet is the term for running down the punishing line and is the correct spelling. It has nothing to do with the glove, gauntlet, thrown down for duel challenges.
Report thisBy Dennis in MI, February 1 at 11:10 am Link to this comment
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Does the 1st lady know her husband is in bed with Monsanto? Organic local gardening is the polar opposite of FDA, USDA priorities. We can’t get GE/GMO labels but the FEDs love to raid whole milk suppliers. We don’t inspect meat processors for years. We don’t study drugs efficacy, the producers do. We let the EPA sit on dioxin issue for 30 years. We have something in the range of 80,000 chemicals that are grandfathered into use that we haven’t studied. Sodium flouride is not calcium flouride and is poison yet the ADA still teaches it’s use. It must be true that eugenics is the program.
Report thisBy Fibonacci65, February 1 at 10:51 am Link to this comment
It’s spelled “gauntlet” and it means running down a line of people with swords out to cut you, but only after you’ve thrown down your glove, asking for the fight—a gauntlet was a medieval glove used by knights.
OK, now that we have that cleared up—nice garden but when, oh when will we get a strong First Lady who might really make a difference—even about food. Much as I like Mrs. Obama, she could do more, lots more, about eating healthy food grown locally.
Report thisBy rend it, February 1 at 10:29 am Link to this comment
looks just like my kitchen, who does all this gardening? Barak out there on weekends assembling hoop houses?
Report thisBy Steve E, February 1 at 9:59 am Link to this comment
I’m feeling warm all over now. Life is peachy.
Report thisBy SarcastiCanuck, February 1 at 7:50 am Link to this comment
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Very cool.Look forward to the day we see cows and sheep grazing on the White House lawn.Soooeeeeeeee.
Report thisBy sanctimonious purist, February 1 at 7:13 am Link to this comment
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This is so bogus. The White House has a huge yard, tons of staff and tons of money to plant, tend, harvest and cook from scratch. Those of us with real jobs, tend not to have much of that. So why does the spouse of the most powerful man in the world with regard to agricultural policy, put the burden on us.
Stop the corn subsidies. Get corn syrup, sugars, artificial colors, preservatives and other additives out of our foods. Mandate livestock be grass or grain fed without antibiotics or hormones. Fund local farms, not agribusiness. Beef up the FDA and USDA to cite wrongdoers. Fund physical education in schools. Include wellness payments in health insurance. Subsidize fresh food markets in low income neighborhoods. Develop local transportation systems for fresh vegetables. Change zoning laws for more urban farms, etc.
Don’t give me this BS about how I should be gardening in my spare time between a more than full time job and taking care of my family. Boy is she clueless!
Report thisBy FRTothus, February 1 at 7:06 am Link to this comment
What is a “gantlet”???
Report thisBy Ian, February 1 at 5:57 am Link to this comment
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Only a socialist would eat seasonal vegetables grown
Report thisin his own back yard.