Michelle Obama gardens - in Jimmy Choos?

That's what they're saying at the Telegraph.

"Michelle Obama went digging at the White House today wearing a pair of expensive-looking Jimmy Choos."  Ed. note:  If they're Jimmy Choos they're expensive.   ->

From the Telegraph.

"With help from a group of Washington primary school students, the first lady began work on the project that will provide the raw material for many of the Obama family's meals.

Early in her stint as first lady, Mrs Obama has outlined healthy eating habits as one of her favoured causes. She has consulted Alice Waters, the celebrated Californian chef and restaurateur who also runs a project in which she teaches children to grow their own vegetables and eat healthily."

<-  I don't know about you, but I always garden in my Jimmy Choos and black leggings.

"The White House garden is aimed to be a symbolic confrontation to childhood obesity, a fast-growing health concern in the US where many are increasingly exasperated by the overwhelming presence of fast food restaurants.

Once they start dining on fennel, broccoli and spinach grown a few hundred feet from their kitchen, the Obamas will become "locavores"/

A locavore - a term coined by Miss Waters - is part of a larger sustainability movement that believes eating locally grown food weans dependence from large industrial farms and boosts local economies.

Mrs Obama said that her daughters Malia and Sasha and the commander-in-chief himself will take time to tend to the garden.

Taxpayers will be relieved to hear that after a week of controversy surrounding federally funded, multi-million dollar executive bonuses, the garden will only cost approximately $200 (£140). "

(My guess is they don't include the labor of the collective White House staff in that dollar figure.  Or the architect's drawing of the garden's layout.  Seen here.)

Fiddle dee dee.   Are they really Jimmy Choos?   Hmmm.    Okay, they are kind of cute.  I'm not so sure they're Jimmy Choo- still, the point is what happened to sneakers and jeans to garden in?

Heh.

After about 10 minutes of scraping up grass with a rake and loading it into one of three wheelbarrows, an impatient Obama joked with the half dozen photographers covering the garden event. “Hey! Quit taking pictures and pick up a shovel.”

Isn't this just precious?

At the end of the hard work, White House pastry chef Bill Yosses handed out individually wrapped sugar cookies shaped like shovels to each of the students. They snacked on the cookies and homemade apple cider and apples from a nearby orchard.

(All brought in at great taxpayer expense, of course.  Stop me if I'm wrong, but the individually wrapped cookies, cider and apples for this crowd probably ran a couple hundred of bucks, wouldn't you say?)

Comments

[MK]

It's for the press Dinah, have to look good for all the celebrity worshipping morons out there you know.

Locavores ey, so much for helping those in other countries by buying the stuff they make eh. Once again, this goes to show, too many in the western world are more interested in childish, feel-good schemes that achieve nothing and make you look like a bunch of hippies.

[Dinah Lord]

That "Locavore" crack made me roll my eyes, too, MK.

The children are in charge of the asylum and it's just so much silliness.

I shake my head.