Queen of the Greens Feeds Elite

When you’re invited to dinner Chez Michelle’s as the spouse of a world leader, be prepared for the Eating-fresh-locally-grown-food-lecture-on-a-plate. The $100-a-lb. wagyu steak favoured by the Obamas is reserved for Wednesday cocktail nights at the White House. But the First Lady may unwittingly have provided the only humour in the hypocrisy of a G20 summit that made a ghost town of an already anemic Pittsburgh, Pa. This modern day Popeye’s Olive Oyl, admonishing the shopaholic wives of world leaders to eat their spinach, insists on being seen as the patron saint of eating “fresh”, “healthy” and “locally grown” greens.