{"id":1872,"date":"2009-01-07T12:16:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T20:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2009-01-07T12:16:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T20:16:49","slug":"barack-obama-on-check-please-august-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/barack-obama-on-check-please-august-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama on ‘Check Please’ (August 2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently in early 2001, David Manilow, one of the creators of “Check, Please!”<\/a> sold his idea for a food TV show to Chicago’s WTTW. One of the early episodes, filmed in August 2001, featured a young state senator named Barack Obama, who was one member of the four-person panel to review Chicago’s Dixie Kitchen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to The Internet Food Association<\/a>: The episode was never broadcast. Obama didn\u2019t seem \u201camateur\u201d enough, and he dominated the show. But on [January 16 2009], it\u2019ll see the light of day, airing as the 100th episode of \u201cCheck, Please!\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Also<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Chicago Public Radio’s 848 interviewed the show’s Executive Producer David Manilow<\/a>, who went on to say that Obama described the restaurant “the way one might describe a social security platform.”<\/i><\/p>\n

[via Serious Eats<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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