Michelle in Moscow
And you thought it was all about her clothes.
First Lady Michelle Obama arrived on Moscow Monday on her second international trip and the chatter is all about - her vegetable garden.
Robin Givhan of The Washington Post, traveling with the Obamas, said the magazine "cover stories and street chatter have focused on her White House Kitchen garden rather than her clothes, her Ivy League pedigree or her interest in promoting public service."
The coverage includes familiar photos of Mrs. Obama wearing a windbreaker, her hair pulled back, on her hands and knees planting the vegetable garden with her elementary school children helpers.
Givhan reports that the headline on the cover of one magazine read: "The Queen of the Fields: Michelle Obama and her husband can overturn our understanding of America."
The interest of Muscovites, writes Givhan, seems to be more on how she raises her children and runs the White Household. Tending a garden, something many Russian women also do, strikes a chord.
For more on this topic, check out Givhan's story in The Post.
Categories: White House Kitchen Garden
Comments
The Great Equalizer. we are all sisters in the dirt.
Posted by: Eve | July 7, 2009 1:04 PM
Gardening is HUGE in Russia. I spent a summer there, and it's amazing what Russians grow. City dwellers all have a community plot in town or a dacha in the countryside where they grow tons of amazing produce. I had never seen anything like it- cucumbers, berries like you wouldn't believe, tomatoes etc. They also love to forage-mushrooms, berries. This was in the 90s when things were still hard to get, but I imagine it still continues-it's very much a part of the culture there.
Posted by: Emily | July 7, 2009 9:11 PM