Richard Nixon
The perfect baked potato
Skip the foil if you want a crisp skin.
The thirty-seventh president was a Californian.
Family or White House tradition
Pat Nixon’s White House meatloaf recipe survives in the National Archives. This smaller home version keeps the family-dinner idea, adding a simple glaze and clear baking instructions.
The president & the table
Nixon’s cottage cheese and pineapple was more than a food anecdote: photographs preserve that lunch at the White House on 8 August 1974. His family’s other well-known contribution is Pat Nixon’s White House meatloaf, whose recipe survives in the National Archives.
Behind this story
Nixon Library photographs and recollections; National Archives, Pat Nixon’s White House meatloaf.