Tuesday, November 24, 2009

STATE DINNER - UPDATE! and then updated some more.

A BIG NEWS PAGE on the DINNER FROM

The Reagan China
The first of many to come...

THE MENU


Potato and Eggplant Salad
White House Arugula w/ Onion Seed Vinaigrette ( arugula grown in the White House garden)

2008 Savingnon Blanc, Modus Operandi, Napa Valley

Red Lentil Soup w Fresh Cheese

2006 Riesling, Brooks "Ara", Wilamette Valley

Roast Potato Dumplings w Tomato Chutney Chick Peas and Okra or Green Curry Prawns w caramelized Salsify w smoke Collard Greens and coconut aged basmati

2007 Granache Beckman Vineyards, Santa Ynez, CA

Pumpkin pie tart

Pear tatin

Whipped Cream and Caramel sauce

Sparkling Chardonnay, Thibaut Janisson Brut, Monticello, VA

Petits fours and Coffee

Cashew Brittle

Pecan Pralines

Passion fruit and vanilla gelees

Chocolate dipped fruit

THE TABLES!!!

Vibrent Color ! I love it, and very much a nod to India. Someone went off on these chairs, but these are the White House chairs that have been used for ever and a day.
The Clinton China. I think it is one of two that there is enough for this large of a crowd. The other would be the Reagan, but red and green....

THE GUEST LIST

Some of the highlights :

Turns out David Geffen HAS a boyfriend.
Michael Bloomberg
Deepak Chopra
Katie Couric
Lots of Guptas including Sanjay
Governor and Mrs. Jindal of Louisiana... who you know, are not really South Asian, but Cajun Catholics.
Gayle but NOT her girlfriend!!!!
The Powells.. always fun at parties
Robin Roberts, Cate Clinton and Urvashi Vaid.. a little L word action out in the tent, and I was with the Mses Clinton and Vaid backstage in Washington!
Jeff Immelt AND Brian Williams... are the dating now?
M. Night Shyamalan

WHO SAT WHERE ?

PRESIDENT'S TABLE
Mrs. Gursharan Kaur, the wife of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass)
Ambassador to India Tim Roemer
Mary Johnston, Roemer's guest (likely a relative of his wife, Sally Johnston Roemer)
Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Paul Pelosi, her husband
David Geffen, the Hollywood titan
Jeremy Lingvall, Geffen's boyfriend

FIRST LADY'S TABLE

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Amrit Singh, the prime minister's daughter, an ACLU lawyer in New York
Upinder Singh, another daughter, a professor at University of Delhi
Dr. Amartya Sen, Nobel-prize winning economist, now at Harvard
Emma Rothschild, Dr. Sen's wife, economic historian, now at Harvard
Gen. Colin Powell, former Secretary of State
Alma Powell, his wife
Rep. Howard Berman, (D-Calif.)
Janis Berman, his wife

1 comment:

b said...

yummy! Can I have a taste of both entrees?

Is it just me, or do the chair seats clash badly with the tablecloths?

Thanks for sharing.I would have never even known this was going on without the diligent coverage of the klog+bile.