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Heavy Is the Toque at a State Dinner

New York Times 11/06/09

As Cristeta Comerford, the White House executive chef, prepares for the Obamas’ first state dinner on Nov. 24, perhaps no one can empathize more fully than René Verdon, who wore the top toque in the Kennedy White House. Mr. Verdon, who has lived in San Francisco for nearly four decades, reflected recently on the heroic dimensions a state dinner can assume in the first kitchen.

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