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In May 1958 the Olympia Brewing Company welcomed a very special visitor. Poppy Cannon toured the brewery while on assignment for House Beautiful, a lifestyle magazine.
“That toothsome meal arguably saved the Republic,” says the journalist, whose new book is “Dinner With the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House,” of Thomas Jefferson’s so-called Dinner Table Bargain. “The debate at Jefferson’s reverberates today.”