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Modern Flourishes as Obamas Host State Dinner


It is an old tradition, a White House banquet absolute by ritual and agreement that happens to be this city’s hottest amusing event. But at their aboriginal accompaniment banquet on Tuesday night, President Obama and his wife, Michelle, fabricated abiding to animate the bright bright with characteristic touches.They assassin a fresh florist, Laura Dowling, who adorned the tented alfresco dining allowance with locally grown, sustainably harvested magnolia branches and ivy. They called a bedfellow chef, Marcus Samuelsson of Aquavit in Fresh York, an American aborigine who was built-in in Ethiopia, reared in Sweden and cooks up melting pots of flavors and cuisines.They arrive bounded acceptance to attestant the accession of the guests of honor, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India and his wife, Gursharan Kaur, and presented a mélange of agreeable entertainment, including the National Symphony Orchestra; Jennifer Hudson, the accompanist and actress; Kurt Elling, the applesauce artist from Chicago; and A. R. Rahman, the Indian artisan who wrote the account to the cine “Slumdog Millionaire.”