Mmmm…cookies
Cindy McCain cribbing cookie recipes? Color me shocked. Michelle Obama’s amaretto-laced shortbread bombs? Raised my roof doggg! So, now that Hilary is out of the race, the remaining women revert to a fucking bakeoff (not that there aren’t a number of kick ass feminist bakeries dotting our fair country)?!
If John McCain loses in November, his wife Cindy may catch some of the blame after apparently cheating in a high stakes presidential cookie bake-off.
Every four years, in the approach to the presidential election, kitchens across America are busy testing cookie recipes submitted by candidates’ spouses for the Family Circle magazine competition.
The stakes could hardly be higher. In the past four presidential elections the magazine’s readers have successfully predicted America’s next first lady. Hillary Clinton’s chocolate-chip oatmeal cookies beat Barbara Bush’s effort, and Laura Bush’s cowboy cookies triumphed over Tipper Gore’s ginger snaps. In 2004 Mrs Bush won again with oatmeal chocolate chunk cookies.
Of course Hillary once disparaged baking (and, goddamnit, drinking tea, for which I have never forgiven her), but the recipes that she later released to quell the backlash of a horrified American public could never fully dispel the taint of “uppitiness” that so manifestly makes her unsuited for public office.
Update: This story has legs! Mary Todd may have been a Hellcat but her gingerbread is the shiznit.
