Happy Presidents' Day from The Kitchn! We're taking today to look over some DIY posts in honor of our February Jumpstart Project. (Have you entered a kitchen project yet? You have just a few more days.) We'll have some other roundups, too, including one now of some of our favorite President-related food posts.

Read on for Barack Obama's favorite pie (in music video form), Michelle Obama's shortbread cookies, Jefferson's favorite ice cream, and recipes from the Inaugural Luncheon.

• Obama's favorite tea in the White House

• Truly fascinating Presidential food history, including a recipe for a (massive) cake by Martha Washington. (Maybe for her husband's birthday, the original Presidents' Day?)

• Recipe: Thomas Jefferson's Vanilla Ice Cream

• A video of Obama laying down the pie challenge and making a point about the election while he's at it.

• Pollan on food policy for the new President.

• Going back: what does a state dinner look like?

• Inauguration fever! Recipes for the Inauguration.

• Duck, cinnamon sweet potatoes, and apple sponge cake: the official inaugural luncheon recipes.

• On a new President and seafood stew.

• Patriotic menus for election night.

• 2008 Candidates on Food: Barack Obama

• Right wings and left wings: more election night food.

• Michelle Obama's Shortbread Cookies

(Images: Taqueria visit, righthand side: Photograph by Michael Lloyd/The Oregonian )