{"id":44754,"date":"2022-05-23T22:50:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/23\/biden-sushi-pacific-lobster-cheeseburgers-japanese-food-fit-for-a-president"},"modified":"2022-05-23T22:50:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T13:50:05","slug":"sushi-pacific-lobster-cheeseburgers-japanese-food-fit-for-a-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44754","title":{"rendered":"Sushi, Pacific lobster \u2026 cheeseburgers: Japanese food fit for a president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden\u2019s hosts have treated him to Tokyo\u2019s finest cuisine, but entertaining US presidents hasn\u2019t always gone to plan<\/p>\n<p>North Korea, China, trade and security. When US presidents visit Japan, the summit agenda practically writes itself. Deciding what to give them to eat, though, is a different matter altogether.<\/p>\n<p>When the White House is occupied by someone with as unadventurous a palate as Donald Trump, the scope for showcasing the delicate flavours and aesthetic beauty of its cooking, or <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2014\/mar\/05\/japenese-cuisine-washoko-unesco-britain-chefs\">washoku<\/a>,<\/em> is limited.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/23\/biden-sushi-pacific-lobster-cheeseburgers-japanese-food-fit-for-a-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden\u2019s hosts have treated him to Tokyo\u2019s finest cuisine, but entertaining US presidents hasn\u2019t always gone to planNorth Korea, China, trade and security. When US presidents visit Japan, the summit agenda practically writes itself. Deciding what to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[596,415,2233,88,939,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-donald-trump","category-george-bush","category-japan","category-joe-biden","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44755,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44754\/revisions\/44755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}