DC Central Kitchen
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DC Central Kitchen is a nationally recognized "community kitchen" that recycles food from around Washington DC and uses it as a tool to train unemployed adults to develop work skills while providing thousands of meals for local service agencies in the process.
[edit] History
DC Central Kitchen was founded in 1989 by Robert Egger. Egger was working in the bar/nightclub scene in DC when he and his wife were talked into volunteering with a church group that bought food to prepare and distribute from the back of a van. Its first major food recovery was from the 1989 inaugural party for President George H.W. Bush.
[edit] External links
- DC Central Kitchen's Website
- Begging for Change, by Robert Egger, 2004 Harper Collins [1]
- Profile of Robert Egger on How To Make a Difference
- A Hand Up In a DC System Full of Letdowns - The Washington Post
- Catering With Conscience - The Christian Science Monitor
