The Obama administration has acquired a reputation for secrecy. The AP’s Washington chief of bureau, Sally Buzbee, has said they are “significantly worse than previous administrations,” and journalists complain that they regularly intimidate sources and shut out the media.
Now it seems the Obamas are tight-lipped even about their eating habits.
White House chef (and Alex Wagner’s husband) Sam Kass gave an odd interview to Bloomberg Politics, apparently “assisted” by press attaché Joanna Rosholm, during which he evaded controversial questions like: “How do you make the wings? Bake them? Fry? Double fry?”
“Those are the kinds of things you won’t get me to talk about,” Kass replied cryptically.
The reticence is particularly strange given Michelle‘s enthusiasm for controlling the minutiae of school lunch programs.
The rest of the interview is full of curt, nondescript answers to benign questions like this:
SK: We’re driven by the garden, and what’s coming out.
BP: Do you really have enough in the garden to supply the table every night?
SK: We give away hundreds of pounds of food every year.
Or this:
BP: What’s a dish you might make with what’s in the garden now?
SK: There are many things.
BP: Is it true the preference is for thin-crust pizza?
SK: We like all pizza. Though being from Chicago we do support the deep dish.
BP: Do you make it yourselves or get delivery?
SK: This is the White House.
We are left with so many questions–can you FOIA the White House menu?
