Throwback to 2007:

"so she knew her pastas and sauces, too"

" she took to cooking at political fund-raisers. What is surprising is how she became a celebrity of sorts, wowing people not only with her meatballs but her wit."

"She had two sons, but she adopted another 25 people during the time she came to Washington"

"A 2004 Associated Press profile noted that her home cooking has raised millions of dollars for Democrats and benefited a whos who of candidates. Among them are Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the current minority leader; Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York."

https://web.archive.org/web/20170211175210/https://www.thenationalherald.com/11823/mother-of-chief-of-staff-to-bill-clinton-podesta-dies-at-89/