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White House pastry chef shares recipes

First Lady Rosalynn Carter hired Roland Mesnier as the White House pastry chef in 1979. For the next 25 years, he prepared over 10,000 pastries for five presidents and countless heads of state. Mesnier was invited on TODAY to show viewers how to make some desserts from his new cookbook, “All the Presidents’ Pastries.” Make this one he made for the George W. Bush family for your family:
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First Lady Rosalynn Carter hired Roland Mesnier as the White House pastry chef in 1979. For the next 25 years, he prepared over 10,000 pastries for five presidents and countless heads of state. Mesnier was invited on TODAY to show viewers how to make some desserts from his new cookbook, “All the Presidents’ Pastries.” Make this one he made for the George W. Bush family for your family:



Rhubarb Parfait

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Rhubarb Parfait

Roland Mesnier's “All the Presidents’ Pastries”