A little Kerry catnip for today [View All]

[ginnyinWI]

I got a windfall yesterday when my just-moved-home college daughter started unpacking her stuff. On campus last fall a Dem group was giving out copies of the NYT to students and she had three unread copies from last October. Along with some nice campaign coverage, I found an article about Teresa in the Food section. If anyone has archive privileges to the NYT, it is from Oct. 13, 2004 and is titled, "For Teresa Heinz Kerry, Food is Personal and Political".

In it, she talks about food safety and the problem of childhood obesity, about her own cooking skills and how she taught her three sons to cook. Now for the catnip, which I must type out by hand:

After she married Senator Kerry, she expanded his limited culinary repertory. "When I married him, he did a very good olio with pasta," she said, "and a very good vinaigrette. And he made the best meringues in the world and the best chocolate mousse, just like my mother's. I taught him to make risotto and to make soups, to cook when I was not around.
"His diet before we were married was pasta with olio or tomato sauce, a salad and then ice cream, and I told him that even though he was thin, it was not the best way to eat."

Teresa is like me in that she is a big reader of hutrition and health books and always tries to provide healthy food from scratch for her family. I'm really glad to know that JK is in such good hands with Teresa watching over him!

It's fun to try to picture JK in the kitchen making a chocolate mousse!