The Candidates Dine Out

Idi Armin (Uganda) and Papa Doc (Haiti) had an appetite for humans.

I guess Tex-Mex and pizzas are safer alternatives for our next president. At least safer for us. You are what you eat, or so they say. I like a wide variety of different foods and  I eat everything in moderation, except on those occassions when I don't.

What does that make me? Perhaps Brillat-Savarin would make an ideal and less expensive therapist than the ones we have now.

Hmm, I think I'd like to eat out with the Obamas. 

Lunch today is homemade pizza; husband has put it in the oven without telling me and I am smelling it just now! 

Can we please let someone at the Wall Street Journal please know that Mexican food in southern Arizona tends to be Sonoran, not Tex-Mex? Sonoran flour tortillas are so different from Tex-Mex; the best are over a foot across, so thin you can almost read a newspaper through them, but still resilient enough to hold up to the biggest burritos, even after they have been covered in red or green enchilada sauce.

There are so many better Mexican restaurants in Arizona than Tee Pee. They have been content to rest on their laurels for decades, and have been no better than mediocre for many years. Clinton had much better taste in Mexican food on his visit to Arizona; Mi Nidito down in Tucson is a study in proper Sonoran food. The two menus may look similar, but the people who run Mi Nidito give every dish the respect it deserves.

As for The Asylum up in Jerome... they should close the kitchen and just serve the view.

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian who didn't drink or smoke.

One thing I loved about President Bartlett on The West Wing was that he loved fine food and loved to cook.  He also loved wearing a white tie and tails and I give him serious kudos for that as well.

Speaking of kudos, ExPat, I love your new Rene Magritte image.  I was just showing Magritte to my little girl.  Yesterday, she went on her first visit to the Museum of Modern Art and we talked about colors, shapes, materials, and how many people in the Magritte paintings were wearing hats.

Senator McCain was campaigning in Brooklyn and he didn't go to Grimaldi's???  Right under the Brooklyn Bridge (on the Brooklyn side), Grimaldi's is my vote for the best pizza I've ever had in any city.  There's always a line outside for a reason.

I love that food is the only topic which can't really get the candidates in trouble, seeing as there are no truely American foods [unless you count corn and deep-fried candybars].

So if you are what you eat [or what you talk about eating, in our case], what are we, the Peterman crowd, as the food conversations tend to revolve around pork and alcohol.
Drunken pigs?

[Forgive my waning wit, I just got home from a party which started seven hours ago. It's very difficult to spend your nights screaming/dancing around a fire and your days pretending to be sophisticated.]

To: DreadPirateRoberts,

I thought the "new" image gave an insight into my true identity....(my true self?) Just thought it would keep everyone guessing.

Have a great weekend!

[... I did my math backwards, I meant 18 hours ago.]

I'll also go out to eat with the Obamas.

Tonight, I'm heading to Joe T Garcia's Mexican Restaurant which is a Fort Worth institution. My girlfriend's father now in his 70's tells stories about having dinner in the back with John Wayne and Jimmy Stuart. Its is authentic home style Mexican. I cant recommend it enough!

Readers should know that "Topolobampo" is a very sophisticated and expensive gourmet restaurant owned and run by Rick Bayless, of PBS fame.  There is no resemblance between this restaurant and "Tex Mex," as one reader stated.

Like all things in politics, it's what they do behind closed doors, away from the public eye that reveals their true selves.  Sounds like they probably have cold pizza leftovers in the middle of the night just like so many of us do. . .  maybe even a slice for breakfast.  It's not just for dinner you know.

I spent a month in Mexico and Texas with a Mexican roommate of mine. His mother and grendmother and aunts cooked everyhting fresh, every day. Abuela would go out in the back yard and cut an ear or lobe or whatever the proper name may be from the cacti that surrounded the garden wall and then make salsa out of it. She cooked a foot high stack of flour tortillas before breakfast and that was the day's lot. They taught me to use the tortillas instead of a knife and fork. I also learned that refried beans are just that, yesterday's leftover beans with a scoop of lard in a frying pan.

I have never had Mexican, Tex-Mex or any other hispanic based food that even comes close to the dining I experienced in those matriarchal bases that sustained an extended family of traveling farm workers.

I don't care what either of these candidates has for dinner. They would both eat a dead baby to get into the White House. I do feel like Senator McCain has at least paid dues and lived as an American long enough to warrant the post. There is something about the other guy that makes me think he might not have the best interests of our country at heart. He seems a bit too "lawyerly" to me. Like Bill Clinton without the polish that only years of pandering will bring him.