Cocktail Coundown: Founding Fathers

If Election 2016 makes you feel like drinking, I can help. Here I’ll make cocktails for each US President. By November, we can drink them all! One died in service to his county. Three died on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, two on the same day, one, five years later. Among the first five
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Candidate Cookies: Hillary Clinton

Candidate cookies are a quick look at the men and women who aspire to be President of the United States 2017-2020. It’s not easy running for President of the United States when you have a long, public political history. It’s also not easy for a presidential biocookieographer to decide how to turn such a candidate
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Candidate Cookies: Ben Carson

  Candidate cookies are a quick look at the men and women who aspire to be President of the United States 2017-2020. While Ben Carson is no longer in the presidential race, I see no good reason to let a photo of a cookie made months ago go to waste. This cookie makes reference to
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Candidate Cookies: Mike Huckabee

  Candidate cookies are a quick look at the men and women who aspire to be President of the United States 2017-2020.   Mike Huckabee, an ex-Baptist minister, is one of the presidential candidates who is a proponent of “family values,” as he defines them. On his website he makes it clear that he will
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Candidate Cookies: Donald Trump

  Candidate cookies are a quick look at the men and women who aspire to be President of the United States 2017-2020. Donald Trump’s cookie references both his personal story and statements that he has made over the last several months. As a billionaire, his cookie should have ingredients that one might not use every
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Candidate Cookies: Rick Perry

Candidate cookies are a quick look at the men and women who aspire to be President of the United States 2017-2020. Rick Perry’s cookie takes a look at some of Perry’s favorite things. Rick Perry plays the piano, so white and chocolate chips are used here to represent the ebony and ivory keys. He is
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Candidate Cookies: Bernie Sanders

  Candidate cookies are a quick look at the men and women who aspire to be President of the United States 2017-2020. Bernie Sanders’ cookie begins with chocolate chips. After all, chocolate chips are pretty classic and Sanders’ history includes a classic immigration story. His father had immigrated to the United States from Poland, and
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The Amalgamation

I’ve been asked more than once whether I’d make a chocolate cupcake for President Obama because he is the first black president. Actually, most people who ask that say African-American president. However, considering that I have a website that explores the way that we use food language to describe women, I wasn’t too keen on
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