‘She’s a vegetarian, I’m not’: JD Vance reveals ‘best and worst’ dish he cooked for wife Usha

US Vice-President JD Vance shared a light-hearted glimpse into his marriage, revealing the “best and worst” dishes he has ever cooked for his wife, Usha Vance — and admitting that his first attempt was “actually inedible”.

Speaking in an interview on Fox News with Lara Trump, Vance was asked about his culinary skills after Usha previously suggested he “did not know how to cook much” before they met.




“The worst is very easy,” Vance replied. “Usha’s a vegetarian and I am not. So I'm like thinking to myself, what does a vegetarian eat...So I went to the grocery store. I got those crescent rolls. I rolled them out like into a pizza shape...It was disgusting. Like it was actually inedible.”



Reflecting on the early days of their relationship, he added: “It's amazing that the relationship lasted because that was the first time that I ever cooked for her.”

Over the years, however, the Vice-President says he has improved significantly in the kitchen. “The best thing that I've ever cooked? I'm pretty good at cooking now. But I can make a pretty good brioche bread.”

Usha Vance, who joined the conversation, offered a more recent example of his efforts. “Most recently it's been Shokupan, which is the Japanese milk bread...he's been working on it for a while and he does it really well.”

The exchange offered a rare personal insight into the couple’s life at home. Married since meeting at Yale Law School in 2010, the pair have three young children — Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel — and are expecting their fourth child, a boy, later this year.

Vance has frequently credited his wife as a steady presence throughout his rapid political rise. “I know her most of all as a great mom and a great wife, as a person who supports me, who's so good to the kids, who makes it possible for them to grow up as normal kids,” he said.

He also described her as someone uninterested in public attention. “This is a person who doesn't really care about the limelight, who's not trying to sort of get out there in front of the crowds all the time, who just wants to give her kids a good life and who wants to be as good of a public servant as possible.”

“I think that's what we should want out of our public leaders and certainly they have it in our second lady.”