For someone who’s clearly stated she’s not much of a cook, Hillary Clinton is leaning heavily on the culinary metaphors of late, since Barack Obama started whining about the temperature in the kitchen after the ABC debate. On Tuesday’s Good Morning America came this exchange with Mario Cuomo’s son:

CHRIS CUOMO: When you think about the meal each of you is preparing for the American public, do you think both of you are going to put the same things on the table. Do you believe that your plans for things that matter, health care, taxes, the economy, that they are the same between the two of you? HILLARY CLINTON: Well, I think I’m a more experienced cook and I think my meal will be better seasoned. [Laughs] Because I really believe that I do have some insight, and understanding of what it will take to achieve universal health care, for example, something that Senator Obama fell short of proposing, because it is hard. And I accept that.

I can only think of how servile journalists in the first lady years would eagerly describe how Hillary made omelettes for a sick Chelsea, but even liberal reporters like Elizabeth Drew thought the repeated anecdote “served only to suggest how rare this kind of thing must have been.”