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.
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.
History
DC Central Kitchen was founded in 1989 by Robert Egger. Egger was working in the bar/nightclubNightclub
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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.
External Links
- DC Central Kitchen's Website
- Begging for Change, by Robert Egger, 2004 Harper Collins http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060541717/
- 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