It's great to be King (The Pres & Pizza)

[Pete]

Another story from a UK source.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...ake-pizza.html

Wonder what it costs per slice?

Wonder if the story will be on GMA? Wonder if the masses care?

[Richard]

Notice it's for a luncheon of 140 guests. FWIW - nearly all Presidents have done this for special occasions - it's a great way to set a meal's theme, as well as hi-light and honor some of our great but lesser or regionally known chefs.

I was preparing to go to Washington for GWB's swearing in of Tom Schieffer (Bob's brother of CBS) as the Ambassador to Australia in September of 2001. The post-swearing in lunch was to be on the White House lawn and feature 'chuck wagon' style food from one of Texas' best known cowboy chefs - Tom Perini of the Perini Ranch over in Buffalo Gap near Abilene - who had been brought to Washington just for that purpose. The rub he uses on his beef tenderloin makes that a meal worth dying for IMO - and if you ever get the chance, try it, you won't regret it.

http://www.periniranch.com/

Unfortunately - six days before the swearing in, a grievance committee of ever peaceful Muslims flew a couple of passenger-filled jets into some buildings in NY and VA, and a field in PA - and the luncheon was cancelled so the President could personally address their concerns. I'm still pissed that I missed that opportunity.

Anyway, back to the point of the discussion, Presidents occasionally bringing in favorite chefs to be hi-lighted at an event is nothing new.

Richard's $.02

[BigJimCalhoun]

The irony is that the pizza place is known for being "green" (environmentally)

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Richard

Notice it's for a luncheon of 140 guests. FWIW - nearly all Presidents have done this for special occasions - it's a great way to set a meal's theme, as well as hi-light and honor some of our great but lesser or regionally known chefs.......

I agree that most Presidents have done similar meals.

But notice, CEOs are being stoned these days if they give any perks to employees so the Pres still flies in a Chef.

But just to show how "small" the Pres is - the Chef is making 20 pizzas for 140 guests. That works out to 7 guests per pizza. The seven will have to fight over the second slice.

[Shar]

Originally Posted by Pete

But just to show how "small" the Pres is - the Chef is making 20 pizzas for 140 guests. That works out to 7 guests per pizza. The seven will have to fight over the second slice.

That just isn't cost-efficient. When we do our occasional pizza runs I always buy bigger than we need for that night so we can have lunch the next day! Bad forward planning. This appears to be a trend.