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Jeff Caplan’s Minute of News: Two of the four candidates can cook
Sep 12, 2024, 8:48 PM | Updated: Sep 13, 2024, 3:42 pm
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SALT LAKE CITY — Anybody remember defiant Hillary Clinton, when her then-candidate husband was running in 1992 and she says…
“I’m not sitting here as some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette.”
She has a career as a lawyer.
“I suppose I could’ve stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public light,” she said.
Back then, that came off so poorly she had to backtrack and say, ‘Don’t get me wrong. I respect women who stay home.’
“All of us,” she said. “We’re trying to find our way. Those who are full-time mothers and homemakers, those who are full-time career, and those who are — the majority of us — trying to balance both. And I think that we’re all trying to come to grips with it”
Those comments didn’t help. She suffered a sea of criticism and she took such heat… over her comment about baking cookies that she agreed to a bake-off against Barbara Bush. It never happened, but Hillary did release her oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe. To this day, a glass jar of her cookies sits in the Georgetown University Library.
They’re pretty stale. It’s been 30+ years.
In this campaign, the Wall Street Journal reports, two of the four major candidates are wizards in the kitchen. Wanna guess which ones?
Mindy Kaling and Kamala Harris, one of those four candidates, got together to make Masala Dosas, an Indian dish. Harris travels cross country with her own herbs. The Journal says she can crack an egg with one hand.
So guess the other foodie. Yes. J.D. Vance, who did a TV ad while he cooked bacon for his kids.
He says in their family, he makes breakfast. He also makes chocolate mousse, cheesecake, and Indian food.
Meantime Tim Walz makes one dish — but not very well. And, of course, Donald Trump makes… reservations.
Jeff Caplan is the host of Jeff Caplan’s Afternoon News on KSL NewsRadio. Follow him on Facebook and X.
