Apparently on Inauguration Day, Aretha Franklin wrote a letter to Obama telling him to make sure he eats a lot of soul food while in the White House...
"You should put me on your advisory team. But I am serious if you are interested," Contactmusic quoted her as saying in the letter.
And her first advice concerns the presidential diet. "Eat plenty of good soul food, Indian, Hawaiian, Chinese, gourmet etc. Because as Dr. (Martin Luther) King used to say, After a good soul meal, I could go around the world on a meal like that," she said.
http://entertainment.oneindia.in/mus...rs-210109.html.