Crab desserts, beef and banana splits: Biden’s South Korea state dinner menu unveiled

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Biden's South Korea state dinner menu

Chef Edward Lee, and White Home cooks Cris Comerford and Susie Morrison show meals throughout a media preview hosted by U.S. first woman Jill Biden forward of a White Home State Dinner for South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his spouse Kim Keon Hee within the State Eating Room on the White Home in Washington, U.S., April 24, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis

WASHINGTON — Friends at President Joe Biden’s and first woman Jill Biden’s state dinner with their South Korean counterparts will feast on Maryland crab desserts and braised beef quick ribs adopted by banana splits for dessert, the White Home mentioned on Monday.

The Bidens are internet hosting South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his spouse Kim Keon Hee for a state go to on Wednesday that may conclude with dinner within the East Room, which is able to function tables embellished with massive vases full of boughs of blooming cherry blossoms that tower six ft into the air.

The meal itself will kick off with crab desserts together with cabbage, kohlrabi, fennel and cucumber slaw. A relaxing yellow squash soup will spherical out the primary course.

The primary course options beef, butter bean grits, sorghum-glazed carrots and pine nuts.

The dessert is a deconstructed banana break up with lemon bar ice cream, recent berries, mint ginger snap cookie crumble and “Doenjang caramel.”

“Joe’s favourite would be the final,” Jill Biden quipped to reporters about her husband, whose love of ice cream is properly documented.

“We hope to showcase the concord of our cultures and our folks intertwined,” on the dinner, she mentioned.

The primary woman labored with Chef Edward Lee, creator of “Smoke & Pickles” and “Buttermilk Graffiti,” together with the White Home cooks to design the menu.

“The primary individual I referred to as was my mom,” Lee mentioned, noting she had immigrated to the US from Korea. “To come back full circle and to offer again and have the ability to do that was … a really proud second for me and likewise for my mother.”

Requested what recommendation she gave, Lee mentioned: “She simply mentioned don’t mess it up.”

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