His and Her Meals for Bill and Hillary

Maybe that copresidency talk in the early days of the Clinton presidency wasn't so far off. New details from an unusual source suggest that the tag-team presidency even filtered down to the kitchen. Former White House pastry chef Roland Mesnier tells us that Bill and Hillary Clinton held his and her business meals: He morning confabbed to raise cash; she policy-lunched. "Our early impressions—that we were serving two presidents instead of one—were confirmed," he writes in the new All The Presidents' Pastries: Twenty-Five Years in the White House. More Clinton tidbits: The fave Christmas dessert is an "atrocious concoction" of Coca-Cola-flavored jelly served with black glacé cherries; Bubba ignored his allergies and ate chocolate cake, barking, "I'm the president around here" and Hillary used to don disguises to walk around Washington. Oh, and a hint to anybody serving sweets to the current first family: Laura Bush is sick of chocolate-covered strawberries, says Mesnier, who left in 2004.

With Dan Gilgoff, Linda Robinson, Angie C. Marek, and Suzi Parker