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New Supreme Court cookbook dishes up history, recipes
By JESSICA GRESKO “The more I researched the contacted 35 families of recipe. fast. Justice Oliver Wen-
Associated Press more I realized that this was justices to ask for recipes Louise Gorsuch, the English- dell Holmes Jr. brought his
WASHINGTON (AP) — At a really substantial topic and family food stories. The born wife of Justice Neil lunch in a tin ammunition
Christmastime, Supreme and that it wasn’t going results include instructions Gorsuch, shared her mar- box. And Justice John Paul
Court Justice Sandra Day Stevens’ regular lunch was
O’Connor would send her This illustration provided by Art Lien via the Supreme Court Historical Society from “Table for 9: a peanut butter and jelly
colleagues gift-wrapped Supreme Court Food Traditions & Recipes” shows the Supreme Court justices eating together, sandwich with the crusts
packages of homemade which they do regularly. cut off.
beef jerky from her family’s Some of the photos ac-
cattle ranch in Arizona. Her Associated Press companying the text have
colleague Ruth Bader Gins- never been published be-
burg pronounced it “very to be fluffy or ridiculous to for the pineapple and co- malade recipe. fore. There are pictures of
spicy.” ask these extremely distin- conut cake Chief Justice Gorsuch, the court’s new- justices eating together
Now, home chefs can try guished judges questions William Rehnquist’s wife est member, by tradition and pictures of birthday
making their own, with like: What are your favorite baked annually for his birth- serves on the committee cakes served to the justices.
guidance from O’Connor’s foods and what do you eat day. that oversees the court’s There’s a picture of jus-
supplier, her brother. His for lunch?” Cushman said. Maureen Scalia, the wife public cafeteria. tices preparing to eat a
jerky-making instructions, Cushman said that to re- of the late Justice Antonin Readers also learn about 28-pound salmon that Jus-
minus the family’s secret search the book she, with Scalia, the first Italian-Amer- the justices’ food habits. tice Stephen Breyer caught
sauce, are part of a new help from Supreme Court ican to serve on the court, The first chief justice, John in Alaska and of Sonia Soto-
book on the Supreme curator Catherine Fitts, contributed a pasta sauce Jay, liked oysters for break- mayor serving homemade
Court’s food traditions. “Ta- Chinese food long before
ble for 9: Supreme Court Clare Cushman, director of publications at the Supreme Court Historical Society, the author of the she became a justice.
Food Traditions & Recipes,” new book, “Table for 9, “ poses for a photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, Dec. “For me, eating is sacred.
out this month, is part his- 14, 2017. You should not waste a
tory book, part cookbook. meal, and so it can be sim-
It includes more than three Associated Press ple and healthy but it has
dozen recipes associated to be tasty,” Sotomayor
with justices and their fami- said during a 2016 event on
lies. the Supreme Court’s food
“Food in good company traditions at the National
has sustained Supreme Museum of American His-
Court Justices through the tory, an event that helped
ages,” Ginsburg writes in spur the book’s creation.
the book’s forward. The book has stories from
Food is a way the court’s the court’s early history,
nine justices connect. too. It describes how in
There are welcome dinners the early 1800s, the justices
for new justices and retire- lived and ate together at a
ment dinners for those who boarding house.
are departing. O’Connor, Justice Joseph Story report-
the court’s first female jus- ed they drank wine, but
tice, revived a tradition of only when it was raining. If
the justices regularly eating he looked out the window
lunch together. And when and the sun was shining, he
a justice has a birthday, was sometimes told “it must
there is wine, a toast and be raining somewhere.”
the singing of “Happy Birth- In the late 1800s, when ar-
day,” a tradition begun by guments were scheduled
Chief Justice Warren Burg- from noon to 4 p.m. with
er, who led the court in the no break for lunch, the jus-
1970s and ‘80s. tices would step away in-
Clare Cushman, the book’s dividually or in pairs to eat
author, says her offering is at small tables behind the
in part a response to visi- bench, the rattle of their
tors asking at the Supreme knives and forks audible to
Court’s gift shop whether spectators.
the court had a cookbook. The book is not the first as-
The White House visitor cen- sociated with food and
ter’s gift shop has several the Supreme Court. Justice
books on food and enter- Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s hus-
taining, and some tourists band, Martin Ginsburg was
expected the court would a talented chef.
too, said Cushman, the After his death in 2011, a
Supreme Court Historical book of his recipes, called
Society’s director of publi- “Chef Supreme,” was com-
cations. So, for a decade, piled as a tribute.
when Cushman came Now, both books are avail-
across a recipe or a food able online through the Su-
anecdote with a link to preme Court Historical So-
a justice, she’d put it in a ciety’s website and at the
folder. court’s gift shop.q
