First ladies’ recipes cover gamut from homey to haute cuisine
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First ladies bring their favorite recipes and cuisine from their home states to the White House.
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As first lady, Michelle Obama promoted healthy school lunches. In this 2011 photo, she picks rhubarb with a group of children in the White House garden.
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During Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton commented that she pursued a career, rather than staying home to bake cookies — leading “Family Circle” to invite her and incumbent first lady Barbara Bush to submit recipes for a chocolate chip cookie bake-off.
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Rosalynn Carter brought peanut recipes to the White House from the Carter family’s Georgia peanut farm.
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Jackie Kennedy’s state luncheon and dinner menus often featured French cuisine.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower dubbed Mamie Eisenhower’s fudge recipe a “million-dollar” treat.
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When Ronald Reagan served as grand marshal of the 1959 Azalea Festival in Wilmington, N.C., future first lady Nancy Reagan brought along her crabmeat casserole recipe.
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First lady Pat Nixon prepares to hang Christmas stockings belonging to daughters Julie and Tricia while decorating at the White House in 1969.
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(From left) President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush share lunch with U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his wife, Rebecca, in 2007 at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas.
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A copy of Lady Bird Johnson’s cheese wafer recipe.
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A copy of Jackie Kennedy’s beef stroganoff recipe.
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A copy of Laura Bush’s cowboy cookie recipe.
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A copy of Nancy Reagan’s piccata of veal recipe.
