Cooking with Obama

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Monday, June 22, 2009 - 10:44 PM

I didn't know that President Obama knows how to make South Asian food. From an interview with Dawn of Pakistan apparently overlooked by the American media:

I had Pakistani roommates in college who were very close friends of mine. I went to visit them when I was still in college; was in Karachi and went to Hyderabad. Their mothers taught me to cook," said Mr Obama.
"What can you cook?"

"Oh, keema ... daal ... You name it, I can cook it. And so I have a great affinity for Pakistani culture and the great Urdu poets."

I think half the country would be amazed and half the country appalled by this. Can you imagine President Bush saying such a thing?

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