Main courses include Beef, Butter Bean Grits, Sorghum-Glazed Carrots, and Pine Nuts.
Washington:
The White House said Monday that guests at a state dinner with South Korean counterparts for President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will feast on Maryland crab cakes and braised beef short ribs, followed by banana bread for dessert.
Biden is hosting South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee on Wednesday for a state visit that will end with a dinner in the East Room, decorated with large vases filled with branches of blooming cherry blossoms. There will be decorated tables which are six towers. feet in the air.
The meal will start off with crab cakes with cabbage, kohlrabi, fennel and cucumber slaw. A chilled yellow squash soup will complete the first course.
Main courses include Beef, Butter Bean Grits, Sorghum-Glazed Carrots, and Pine Nuts.
The dessert is a decadent banana split with lemon bar ice cream, fresh berries, mint ginger snap cookie crumble and “donjang caramel.”
“Joe’s favorite will be last,” Jill Biden told reporters about her husband, whose love of ice cream is well documented.
“We hope to demonstrate the harmony between our cultures and the interconnectedness of our peoples,” he said.
The First Lady worked with White House chef Chef Edward Lee, author of “Smoke and Pickles” and “Buttermilk Graffiti,” to design the menu.
“The first person I called was my mother,” said Lee, who immigrated to the United States from Korea. “To come full circle and give back and be able to do that … was a very proud moment for me and for my mom as well.”
Asked what advice he gave, Lee said: “He just said don’t mess it up.”
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