Hottest Magazine News of the Week: Family Circle announced the winner of their First Lady Cook-off. It's first lady Laura Bush, whose Chocolate Chunks overtook Teresa Heinz Kerry's Pumpkin Spice cookie with 67% of the vote. When the "polls" closed almost 17,000 Family Circle readers had voted. The magazine says the ballot count was supervised and audited by the accounting firm BDO Seidman. This is serious stuff. That's because the results of the First Lady Cook-off has predicted the last three presidents. This year the cook-off was almost as contentious as the campaign. That's because Ms. Heinz Kerry, dare we say it, flip-flopped on her recipe, claiming that it wasn't really hers. She told NPR's Susan Stamberg, "I never make pumpkin cookies. I don't like pumpkin spice cookies."
And that, folks, is a perfect summary of the campaign. |