English subtitles for clip: File:Behind the Scenes- Inside the Kitchen for the France State Dinner.webm

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Cristeta Comerford:
State Dinner, of course,

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is the highest honor that a
host country could bestow

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to a visiting country.

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So like for the French dinner
what we want to do is show what

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the bounties of the
Americas is like.

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We want to give our guests a
taste of the kitchen garden.

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We were very fortunate that
during the summer months we had

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so much varieties of vegetables
from the garden that

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we were able to pickle.

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Like for example,
we have the fennel,

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that we'll be using some hot
peppers and some mustard

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and onion, the spring onion.

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So we're incorporating a lot
of this pickles to some of our

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canapés and some of our salad.

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The First Lady's signature dish,
we're calling

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it the Winter Garden Salad.

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This particular dish, it
looks like a terrarium,

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and we're going to have like
little tiny vegetables like

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carrots, radishes, cucumbers,
and do not forget we also have

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the White House honey that
we'll be using for our dressing.

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Our garden is not just a symbol
of the First Lady's initiatives

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on good lifestyle and eating;
this is actually

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a working platform.

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So it's a little representation
of the kitchen garden,

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so it's really, really
an awesome plate.

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Bill Yosses:
There's a great
history of French culinary

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and French pastry ties between
France and America.

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One of the really signature and
sort of important parts is going

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to be the petit fours.

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So we have chosen very typically
American style

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cookies and chocolates.

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For example, we're making
cotton candy and maple fudge;

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sort of the carnival type
of sweets in America.

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And they're all going to be
served on this amazing piece,

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which is poured sugar made to
look like a marbleized bowl.

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Susan Morrison:
Here I have a the petit four tray.

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I have made some
hand-pulled sugar flowers.

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The red one symbolizes
the American Red Rose,

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and then symbolized for
France the Purple Iris.

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Each flowers are placed on
each side of the platter.

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This will be a wonderful presentation for the guests.

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♪♪ (festive music) ♪♪