By the bestselling author, Anonymous.
By now, over 5 million of us know what's in Oprah's kitchen, and quite frankly it's not very appetizing. But take a look inside Bill's kitchen--the nation's kitchen--and you can imagine a far tastier scenario, with microwave chili dogs for snacking with
Chelsea ("Don't tell your mother!") and cheese sauce by the gallon. Say what you want about his politics, but Clinton is the first president whose eating habits correspond to his constituency's. While many of us may not understand his health-care policy, but we can all name his favorite restaurant: McDonald's ("I don't necessarily consider McDonald's junk food. You know they have chicken sandwiches, they have salads . . . " -- Bill Clinton).
Part cookbook and part political satire, In The Kitchen With Bill explores this nation's greatest paradox: how to trim things down, without sacrificing everyone's favorite goodies.
We the people are hungry, and In the Kitchen With Bill offers up all the not-so-healthy favorites that Rosie denies us. From French Fried Nation to Slick Willie's Sneakin' Food and Let Them Eat Cake (with a cornucopia of nutrition-free desserts), each chapter brims over with honest to goodness American cooking. These democratically-selected recipes are not only mouthwatering, but sure to send tongues wagging as well. A taste includes Congressional Crockpot Stew, Dirty Politics (Cool Whip and Crushed Oreo Cookies, garnished with Gummy Worms), Tipper's 2 Live Stew, Janet Reno's Hardball Hamsteak, and Socks's Tuna-Melt with Anchovies.
And if company is coming, just turn to the Mealpolitik section to find out what Bill and Hil serve. George and Barbara were served the "Green Menu": Cream of broccoli soup, broccoli with cheese sauce, deep fried broccoli, broccoli-cheese bread, and for dessert . . . broccoli mousse, but the Gores prefer things simple (white bread--yum!)
More inclined to the blue plate special than the blue ribbon banquet, Bill always has time to break bread with regular people. And In the Kitchen with Bill includes priceless photographs of Bill eating his way across America and flaunting hi s low-metabolism in those famous jogging shorts. There's also a generous portion of quotations and trivia on the eating habits of U.S. Presidents past and present. You'll revisit Reagan's beloved jellybeans and Bush's pork rinds, learn of the recent uprising by young staffers over the high-fat offerings at the White House mess and relive the 3,300-calorie five-course meal that Bill shared with Helmut Kohl. And there are real-life recipes for Tipper's mayonnaise and potato chip sandwiches and Hillary's chocolate chip cookies (figures that she lost out to Barbara Bush).
Just as sure as cutting taxes, In the Kitchen With Bill is one platform that's guaranteed to go over well with all the voters. A high-profile parody of one of the single bestselling hardcover books of all time, with a small serving of White Trash Cooking on the side, In the Kitchen With Bill will please a lot of people for a good long time.
Anonymous's identity remains unknown to the publisher, as the author communicated solely via e-mail during the writing and editing of this book. The author is currently using the screen name "Deep Fat."