A taste for diplomacy - The Washington Post Shades of President George H.W. Bush's war on broccoli back in 1990, when he famously declared: "I do not like broccoli. He particularly enjoys scallops. . . . You'll also do well with lamb chops, shepherd's pie, simple salad, clam chowder, chocolate desserts, ice cream. Sounds very New England, maybe a bit old-fashioned. But best not go overboard into a New England boiled dinner or creamed chipped beef. In addition, we've heard it's best not to serve farm-raised salmon. Good to know Kerry drinks water. It's unclear whether sparkling or still, so offer both, just not tap. Closed doors, open windows Former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm's name has been floated for many Cabinet jobs, including secretary of labor or transportation or energy. But she's thinking she may be out of the running. Granholm, who last year hosted a show called "The War Room" on Current TV - the network Al Gore sold in January to al-Jazeera - said Sunday that she's "probably" going to work at the Pew Charitable Trusts as a spokeswoman on clean-energy matters, though it's not a "done deal." Quite so - a source at Pew says it's not going to happen. Granholm, interviewed on "Platts Energy Week," an all-energy news and talk show, said she'd been watching confirmation hearings in the past few weeks. "If you think it was hard getting Hagel confirmed," she said, referring to Chuck Hagel, President Obama's nominee for defense secretary, "imagine somebody who has run a progressive talk show for the past year, probably poking a few Republicans in the eye," maybe even some who will be voting on her nomination. "I might be a little bit of a tough" challenge to confirm, Gran­holm said, "but I'm going to do all sorts of stuff serving on the outside, for sure." Sounds as though a Cabinet post is not in her future. On the other hand, there are good jobs that don't require confirmation.