A little Kerry catnip for today

[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!

[TayTay]

1. How can anyone survive on olio and pasta

and still stay so slim? I swear, I want the cloning people to take alook here. This is a mystery that we hzve to sic the DNA police on. ("I'll have what he's having, please."

Damn, how can anyone eat pasta and chocolate mousse and meringues and still be so thin. It's positively indecent.

[ginnyinWI]

2. he burns it off I guess

he's got one of those revved-up metabolisms. He's one of those figeters who never sit still. Oh, and the odd 90-mile bike trip doesn't hurt! And I wouldn't be surprised if he's also that type who forgets to eat!

[europegirl4jfk]

4. Only one possible explanation: hyperactivity!

I guess he is one of those guys who never stop moving. *g*

Well, I'm not thin but I would really love to try his chocolate mousse. Couldn't we organize a huge group meeting and sign him up as the cook? :evilgrin:

[Vektor]

7. Hi there!

I sent you an email re: San Francisco. How are you?
:hi:

[europegirl4jfk]

11. I got your email :-)

Hi Vektor!

We will come to SF. I'm very busy preparing my trip to the US - leaving on Thursday. I will send you an email from LA.

Tina

[Vektor]

17. Yay!!!

Have a safe trip!! Can't wait to hear from you. :-)

[Firespirit]

5. Here's another who eats like that...

You can pry my carb-laden pasta and calorie-laden desserts from my cold dead fingers. 5'4", 100 pounds. }(

Don't know about him, but with me, it's a combination of keeping myself stressed much of the time, and genetics (high metabolism runs in the family). It's probably something like that with him as well... at least the stress part. He's also extremely physically active, and that's bound to help (although it seems to make no difference with me).

And BTW, it's awesome to think of him making chocolate mousse. That's a nice image.

[BlueIris]

10. Heh. Yes, let's clone Kerry.

That's one of the best reasons to legalize as much cloning as we possibly can: CLONE JOHN KERRY, makes a great t-shirt idea.

[LittleClarkie]

12. Sort of a South Beach nightmare isn't it

the All Carb diet. Yikes!

[FreedomAngel82]

16. My guess is

because he's so tall and he stays active in sports.

[whometense]

3. I remember that story.

It was the first time I identified personally with Teresa. I also come from the order of the earth mother. I was the envy of my playgroup because my older son ate broccoli, and he didn't taste sugar until he started preschool. All bets off on the younger two, though. ;-)

So I'm like that too. Not an extreme nutjob, but I cook meals from scratch, buy organic when I can, and put up with the gentle mockery of my children.

It comforts me to know she's so devoted to taking care of him. I remember reading something that referred to Teresa as a lioness. Loved it, and the image stuck in my head.

[Vektor]

6. self delete

[WildEyedLiberal]

8. A self delete coming from YOU makes me infinitely curious

:P

[Vektor]

9. Hahaha

It was no biggie. I accidentally posted in the wrong place is all. No scandal.


This time.

[karynnj]

13. His "limited" repertory actually sounds impressive

in that he bothered to learn how to make some reasonably complicated things well enough to impress Teresa- well beyond opening a jar of spaghetti sauce, cooking pasta, and putting on salad dressing from a bottle.

Adding what Teresa has taught him, he's a pretty competent cook - seeing that he could just order out or pick stuff up. She sounds like a great cook herself.

[ginnyinWI]

14. or he could tell the cook to do it.

I mean, they've got to have a cook at least part time, right? I'm sure neither JK or T have to cook when they don't feel like it, so it's even more interesting to see this side of them both.

Meanwhile, back in the middle class, MY husband only makes coffee and tea! He even burns food he's heating up out of a can. His idea of making dinner is "let's get take-out!" I guess you can tell he never lived on his own--went straight from his mom's kitchen to mine.

[politicasista]

15. I wanna taste Momma T's food

I bet it's the bomb!

[saracat]

18. What is "olio" ?

[ginnyinWI]

19. I looked it up

I didn't know either, and I am a good cook!

All it refers to is pasta tossed with olive oil, and some garlic and parsley. In Italian: "Pasta e Olio". :)