{"id":20167,"date":"2014-03-19T14:09:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T14:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=20167"},"modified":"2014-03-19T14:14:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T14:14:06","slug":"rorschach-pastry-chef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=20167","title":{"rendered":"Rorschach Pastry Chef"},"content":{"rendered":"

How the wingnut political tabloid<\/a> The Daily Caller<\/em> reports this:<\/p>\n

White House executive pastry chef Bill Yosses is resigning after First Lady Michelle Obama fundamentally changed his job duties to focus on healthier food.<\/p>\n

Yosses is leaving the White House in June to work on a new project focusing on \u201cfood literacy\u201d and The New York Times says Michelle is \u201cpartly to blame.\u201d The openly gay chef was hired by Laura Bush in 2007 to make his trademark cookie plates and sugar sculptures. Mrs. Obama took over in 2009 and ordered Yosses to make healthier plates in smaller portions.<\/p>\n

Yosses began replacing butter with fruit puree and sugar with honey and agave. But Yosses was never fully committed to the new policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to demonize cream, butter, sugar and eggs,\u201d Yosses said, noting that his departure from the White House is a \u201cbittersweet decision.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds like the First Lady drove him out with all her health crap. Right?<\/p>\n

Here's how the NY Times reports it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Hired by Laura Bush in 2007, when he was already acclaimed in New York for the raspberry and pear souffl\u00e9s he created at restaurants like Montrachet and Bouley, Mr. Yosses began moving beyond the traditional sugar sculptures and cookie plates after Mrs. Obama arrived at the White House. He was directed to make more healthful desserts, and in smaller portions, that were to be served only sparingly to the first family.<\/p>\n

Mr. Yosses began experimenting with alternatives to what he called \u201cthe usual blitzkrieg\u201d of butter and cream. Now, he said, \u201cwe replace butter with fruit pur\u00e9e, which gives some body.\u201d He often uses honey and agave in place of sugar, has added whole grains to desserts and is considering heirloom varieties of whole wheat without the bitterness of wheat bran and germ in modern whole-wheat flour.<\/p>\n

Mr. Yosses has also been inspired by the White House garden, where he has chosen from a cornucopia of strawberries, blueberries, rhubarb, figs, papaya, carrots, sweet potatoes and herbs like lemon thyme flowers, lavender and pineapple sage. Nearby is honey from the White House beehives. The result \u2014 oatmeal bars, baked apples and pear-quince cobblers, among many others \u2014 will have a lasting impact on his eating habits, as will Mrs. Obama.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has done it with humor and good will, without preaching, just the way you would hope the \u2018Mom in chief\u2019 would do,\u201d Mr. Yosses said. He called her \u201cdefinitely an inspiring boss, a combination of spontaneity and seriousness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Mr. Yosses has hardly turned his back on his old, sweet life. \u201cI don\u2019t want to demonize cream, butter, sugar and eggs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

...<\/p>\n

Mr. Yosses, 60, said he was also moving to New York to be with his husband, Charlie Jandusay Fabella Jr., a teacher. The two married in Washington in 2011, but \u201cfor the 11 years my husband and I have known each other, we have lived in different cities,\u201d Mr. Yosses said.<\/p>\n

The pastry chef will not leave the White House until June, when he hopes to put together \u201ca group and foundation of like-minded creative people\u201d for promoting delicious food as healthy food. He offered no more details about his venture, but said it would be devoted to food literacy from the bottom up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mmmm. Smells like the Daily Caller is cookin up a big batch of mendacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How the wingnut political tabloid The Daily Caller reports this: White House executive pastry chef Bill Yosses is resigning after First Lady Michelle Obama fundamentally changed his job duties to focus on healthier food. Yosses is leaving the White House in June to work on a new project focusing on \u201cfood literacy\u201d and The New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20170,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20167\/revisions\/20170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}