Angelia Jolie and son Maddox among 200 guests joining Joe and Jill Biden at White House state dinner for South Korea

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Published on Wednesday, 26 April 2023 05:28

Written by Daily mail

           Angelina Jolie and her son Maddox will be among the 200 guests joining President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden at the White House on Wednesday for a state dinner honoring the president of South Korea.A White House official confirmed to DailyMail.com that the actress and her oldest son will be in attendance.Jolie, who is politically active, was at the White House in September 2021 to talk about the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. During that trip she also visited Capitol Hill to lobby Congress on the matter. She returned to the White House in March 2022 to watch President Biden sign the reauthorization into law.  She brought her daughter Zahara to that event, where they met with the president.Jolie has long been active in political and international issues, particularly women's issues and speaking for refugees.And she'll be there to watch President Biden and first lady Jill Biden host the second state dinner of their administration on Wednesday for South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and his wife Kim Keon-hee.Guests will don black tie attire to dance and dine under cherry blossoms in the East Room of the White House. They'll enjoy on American food with a Korean twist. The dinner will take place in the East Room of the White House, the largest of the formal rooms on the state floor of the White House. The menu was designed by Chef Edward Lee, a Korean-American chef who's known for infusing traditional American classics with Korean flavors.'That was the first thing I was told - ice cream,' he said on Monday during a preview of the dinner. Ice cream is President Joe Biden's favorite dessert. Lee, who has appeared on Top Chef and owns restaurants in Washington D.C. and New York, created about a dozen dishes for Jill Biden and her team to try in order to come by the final menu. 'I wanted to take some of my favorite American foods and just tinker with it a little bit. And this is also how I cook in my restaurants - to just add a little bit of Korean touches to it. Where again, it's familiar yet unexpected, and it's not traditional Korean food, but it just gives you a little hint of Korean flavors,' he said. He said the first person he told about being asked to be guest chef for the evening was his mom, an immigrant from Korea.'We've always felt this huge debt of gratitude to the United States of America for the opportunities that they've had, that I've been able to have. So to come full circle, and to give back and be able to do this was, you know, a very proud moment for me and also for my mom,' he said.And as for the advice his mom gave him: 'She just said don't mess it up.'

source : Daily mail