White House executive pastry chef Susie Morrison holds a plate featuring salted caramel pistachio cake, matcha ganache, cherry ice cream, and raspberry drizzle, which will be served at a state dinner held for Japan’s prime minister and his wife.White House executive pastry chef Susie Morrison holds a plate featuring salted caramel pistachio cake, matcha ganache, cherry ice cream, and raspberry drizzle, which will be served at a state dinner held for Japan’s prime minister and his wife.
The guests will dine on a first course of house-cured salmon and an entree of dry-aged rib eye steak with pepper butter, fava beans, mushrooms and onions. Dessert is salted caramel pistachio cake with a matcha ganache and cherry ice-cream.Some of Jill Biden’s favourite flowers, including roses and peonies, are being used alongside imported cherry blossoms to decorate a mix of round and rectangular tables in shades of pink, with a few of the floral centrepieces topping out at 6ft tall.
Also lined up to entertain guests after dinner are The President’s Own Marine Band Chamber Orchestra, the Army Rolling Strings and the Air Force Strings.Outlining the event, Jill Biden said: “As technology dissolves the distances between us and we face challenges that cross borders and oceans, our nations are partners in building a world where we choose creation over destruction, peace over bloodshed and democracy over autocracy.