‘Happy Birthday, Mr President! ‘High on the Hog’: Political Steaks and Power Lunches with America’s Presidents’

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It is strange to think that, in 1962, when Marilyn Monroe whooshed, ‘Happy Birthday, Mr President,’ on national TV to JFK, her on-off lover of 8 years, both of them were near their deaths, dissolving in the floodlights of their respective careers as Sex Kitten and President. Marilyn had two months to live; JFK some 18 months. (more…)

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Mt H’s Encyclopaedia of Useless Knowledge

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OXFORD

‘This Earle of Oxford [Edward de Vere], making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed, that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed (more…)

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Tubular Vision

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Please excuse me. This is all a bit of a misunderstanding. When they asked me to write something for people on the Tube, you see, I thought they said “the tube” and, as founder and chairman of K-Slott, I felt it my duty to accept.

K-Slott, as you probably know, stands (more…)

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Property Beyond the Grave

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The French for funerals as all schoolchildren used to know is ‘pompes funebres’; and ‘pomp’ is a concept we have little use for now, at funerals or anywhere else. It is said you can still get a decent glass-windowed hearse, four black horses and a driver in Dublin, and surely they must still exist in (more…)

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Jimmy Carter’s Southern Peanut Soup

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Ingredients

4 tbsp butter
1 onion, chopped
2 stalks celery
2 tbsp plain flour (more…)

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Barack Obama’s Hoppin’ John

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Ingredients

For the stock …

1 small smoked ham hock
3 medium onions, split in half
3 fresh bay leaves, torn (more…)

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Barack Obama’s Fried Chicken

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Several tricks are required to get the best Southern Fried Chicken. For starters, a wet marinade should be followed by a dry crumb marinade. Then you’ll have to bake AND fry (but make it look as if you only fried).

Ingredients (more…)