Food And Diplomacy News

"State Dinner Menus: From White House to South Korea, A Culinary Diplomacy"

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden are set to host a state dinner in honor of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, featuring a menu that blends Korean and American cuisines. The menu includes a Maryland crabcake with a Korean-inspired slaw, yellow squash soup with cured strawberries and perilla leaf, and beef short ribs with butter bean grits and sorghum-glazed carrots. The dessert course is a banana split with lemon-bar ice cream and a caramel sauce flavored with doenjang, a Korean fermented soybean paste. The Bidens enlisted Korean American chef Edward Lee to help design the menu, continuing the tradition of culinary diplomacy at state dinners.