“While Obama’s been eating, he’s also slowly teased a culinary identity out of DC, an unintentional but pivotal side effect. In a place that’s not quite northern or southern, DC has historically had a hard time expressing an epicurean self. It doesn’t really have a signature dish, like the Baltimore crabcake or Maine lobster roll. The closest is the half-smoke, the sausage/hot-dog hybrid that Obama had at Ben’s Chili Bowl. But to most Washingtonians, it’s something that comes out of a warm-water bath from a sidewalk vendor. Most can’t even identify what’s in it or what should go on it.”
Gourmet Live unveils how The Commander in Chief’s culinary choices are shaping a new culinary capital in America.
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