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Inaugural Balls: From Washington to Trump, Turtle Soup to Sliders and more!
What Might be Cooking at President Trump's Inaugural Ball? Lessons from presidential plates past and present.
🎙️In this episode of Family Tree, Food & Stories, co-hosts Nancy May and Sylvia Lovely dish up a banquet of stories and foods that have graced inaugural balls throughout U.S. history. From George Washington’s solitary dining to Lincoln's midnight chaos, this episode reveals how these menus reflect presidential personalities, American culture, and even our own family mealtime tastes. You'll learn about the quirks of Chester Arthur’s Rhode Island eel, Dolly Madison’s introduction of…
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