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2 days agoThe Way Richard Nixon Ate Cottage Cheese May Make You Lose Your Appetite - Tasting Table
Richard Nixon's unusual food choice of cottage cheese with ketchup reflects his background and public image.
The truth is that as a country we have often found one reason or another to let the powerful escape the consequences of their actions. Consider Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, commander in chief of a rebellion that killed hundreds of thousands of people. Davis spent two years in federal custody after the end of the war. The indictment against him was dismissed following his release, and he spent the rest of his life a free man.
There have been more than 40 U.S. presidents since the country's founding in 1776, and, like the rest of us, they all had their own food preferences. American cuisine has changed quite a bit over the past two and a half centuries, so it's hardly surprising that George Washington's diet wasn't exactly in lockstep with John F. Kennedy's or Bill Clinton's. Many Americans today are unfamiliar with hoecakes, for instance, a breakfast item the first commander-in-chief was especially fond of.