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12:58 PM, Nov 24, 2009 • By MARY KATHARINE HAM

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...I bring you the State Dinner menu. First item:

Potato and Eggplant Salad
White House Arugula with onion seed vinaigrette
2008 sauvignon blanc, Modus Oprendi, Napa Valley, California

Perhaps the price at Whole Foods is no longer an issue because they're growing it in the garden?

"Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?" the senator said. "I mean, they're charging a lot of money for this stuff."

Mark Knoller has a picture of the place-settings for tonight's event, and Politico will be livestreaming it, if you're into that kind of thing.

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