The White House goes light
February 8th, 2007 by Matt
On some level, I suppose this sucker had to be covered (courtesy of the folks over at Reuters):
First lady Laura Bush has selected William Yosses as White House Executive Pastry Chef and praised him on Monday for originality and a light touch with desserts.
Yosses, who joined the White House in November as a holiday pastry chef, replaced Thaddeus DuBois who left last year from the post in charge of designing dessert menus for state dinners and other official and social events at the White House.
In all seriousness,
somewhere out there there are pastry chefs who are crying themselves to sleep, yelling at themselves in the mirror, or wishing they hadn’t auditioned for the part by concocting chocolate mousse* torts drenched in a molten devil’s food fudge and topped with whip cream and caramel-covered macadamia nuts.
We thought we’d offer up some recipes for healthier desserts, so here’s a link to WebMD, who, somewhat surprisingly, has a bevy of options for those of us (yours truly include) still looking to shed some holiday pounds (damn that pumpkin pie!) without completely sacrificing the sweets.
*“Mousse” photo (get it?) © 2006 Robert R Elam
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