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New Cookbook Features Supremely Delicious Recipes From SCOTUS Justices And Their Families

There's a new cookbook out that's sure to sate the hunger of any attorney.

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You’re hosting a dinner party at your home, everyone on the guestlist is a lawyer, and you’re at a complete loss as to what to feed them. Recipes from your Rachel Ray cookbook just won’t cut it, and because you’ve procrastinated on this task for so long, it’s now too late to get the event catered. What on earth are you going to do?

Thankfully, there’s a new cookbook out that’s sure to sate the hunger of any attorney.

“Table for 9: Supreme Court Food Traditions & Recipes,” written by Clare Cushman, the Supreme Court Historical Society’s director of publications, is part history book and part cookbook, and within it you’ll find more than three dozen recipes (43 to be exact) from Supreme Court justices and their families. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who wrote the book’s forward, mused that “[f]ood in good company has sustained Supreme Court Justices through the ages.” Here’s more information from the AP:

Cushman said that to research the book she, with help from Supreme Court curator Catherine Fitts, contacted 35 families of justices to ask for recipes and family food stories. The results include instructions for the pineapple and coconut cake Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s wife baked annually for his birthday. Maureen Scalia, the wife of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, the first Italian-American to serve on the court, contributed a pasta sauce recipe.

Louise Gorsuch, the English-born wife of Justice Neil Gorsuch, shared her marmalade recipe. Gorsuch, the court’s newest member, by tradition serves on the committee that oversees the court’s public cafeteria.

You’ll also learn some fun SCOTUS food facts from this book. For example, whose lunch did the late Justice Antonin Scalia refer to as “disgusting”? That would be retired Justice David Souter, who ate plain, nonfat yogurt and an entire apple — including the seeds! — every single day. Less disgusting and more cute is what Justice John Paul Stevens ate for lunch prior to his retirement from the high court: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with the crusts cut off.

Table for 9 is available for pre-order on the Supreme Court Historical Society’s website and at the Supreme Court’s gift shop. Reserve your copy today!

New Supreme Court cookbook dishes up history, recipes [Associated Press]
‘Oysters Le Burger’? SCOTUS Cookbook Reveals Justices’ Food Traditions and Recipes [National Law Journal]

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Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky has been an editor at Above the Law since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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