Filipino American Cristeta Comerford, the White House Executive Chef, is whipping up another tasty menu for visiting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his wife Yuko, US First Lady Dr. Jill Biden told the media on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila).
Biden gave news bodies a peek of the State Dinner slated for Wednesday night (April 9) for the Japanese leader, who will meet US President Joe Biden and President Marcos in an historic trilateral meeting on April 11.
The menu will include an appetizer of house-cured salmon and a dry-aged ribeye, she said.
“A dry-aged ribeye beef and it is sauced with sesame sauvignon. And also since it is spring we have some wonderful morel mushrooms, some wonderful greens and some fava beans and some wonderful sea shell leaves as well,” Comerford said in a statement.
The dessert will be a caramel pistachio cake, with a hint of cherry blossoms, a nod to the gift of cherry blossom trees from the Japanese government in 1912, she added.
The First Lady described the dinner as transforming the White House “into a vibrant Spring Garden, a place of joy and renewal, of hope and growth.”