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A wonderfully entertaining, often surprising history of presidential taste, from the grim meals eaten by Washington and his starving troops at Valley Forge to Trump's fast-food burgers and Biden's ice cream - what they ate, why they ate it, and what it tells us about the state of the nation - from the coauthor of Julia Child's best-selling memoir My Life in FranceThe American presidents have been hosts to some of the most significant moments in our history over meals at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And during such occasions, our commanders-in-chief have understood the value of breaking bread with both friends and foes - Thomas Jefferson's nation-building receptions in the new capital Washington, D.C.; Ulysses S. Grant's state dinner for the king of Hawaii; Booker T.