Barack Obama: Those Johnny Cakes’ll getcha

Jesse Nathan bio ↓  ·  January 9th, 2009  ·  filed under politics

Obama moonlights as a food critic on Chicago’s WTTW. He plugs the Dixie Kitchen for its Southern Sampler (perfect, he says, for the indecisive), its pancake appetizers (careful, he says, they’ll kill your appetite), and its unpretentious M.O. “It’s food that tastes good for a good price,” he says, all smiles. But these were happier times. The millenium was only eight months old. The two towers still stood. Nobody’d even heard of this newbie senator from Illinois with a passion for the south side’s best peach cobbler.

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Jesse Nathan is an editor at McSweeney’s and the managing editor of the Best American Nonrequired Reading. His poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in jubilat, the American Poetry Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Nation. He was born in Berkeley, grew up in Kansas, and lives now in San Francisco. More from this author →

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