Natascha Engel, chair of the Backbench Business Committee responsible for timetabling e-petition debates, welcomed the move.
You see, the chef (Jimmy), the publicist (Natascha) and the new visitor (me) are all Puerto Rican.
Natascha tells me that the past ten years, the Puerto Rican population in Miami has been growing.
And none have made more impact on the Commons than Natascha Engel .
No surprise that Natascha was proud to treat a fellow boricua to a dish we both associate with childhood.
Update: Credit to Miguel Guadalupe and Natascha Otero and others, who saw the mofongo-mangu connection a while ago.
Natascha Engel, the committee's chair, said the move went "absolutely against the spirit" of the relationship between the committee and the government.
And in a world where leadership is becoming more and more of a long tail phenomenon, Natascha is perhaps the most important kind of leader.
With Matthew Lillard, Adrian Lester, Natascha McElhone, and Alicia Silverstone, who bravely tackles the Shakespearean pentameter as if she were being asked to eat cactus.
In the Commons, three chairs of select committees have cut a particular dash: Natascha Engel has plotted a course for the Backbench Business Committee between the twin dangers of establishment cosiness and hyper-confrontational posturing.
At Mr Lansley's weekly Commons question session, Natascha Engel, the Labour MP and chair of the backbench business committee, welcomed the new threshold, highlighting the "important" role e-petitions had played in helping campaigners uncover the truth about the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster.
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