Where Does the White House Get All Those Easter Eggs?
April 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Posted in food news
Ever tried hard-boiling 5,000 eggs?
Thousands of kids and their families are expected to descend on the south lawn of the White House on Monday, April 5, to take part in the annual Easter egg roll. The event is so popular, tickets are dolled out through a lottery. But you may be wondering, where do they get all those eggs?
Answer: D.C. Central Kitchen, the entrepreneurial social services non-profit that supplies some 4,000 meals every day to the city’s homeless and needy.
Actually, the eggs are donated by Virginia farmers. They are merely cooked at the D.C. Central Kitchen facilities at 2nd and D streets NW. I was there Wednesday to visit one of the chefs, Allison Sosna, who showed me the big kettle cookers where the eggs–5,000 of them–are hardboiled. Sosna said she and about four other employees would be spending a good part of the day cooking the eggs and getting them ready for delivery to the White House.
Do they happen to use the Julia Child method, which requires measuring precise amounts of water for the eggs, cooking them, then quickly dipping them in iced water, then back into the hot water, then back into the cold water–all to loosen the shell? You know how we hate to peel a hard-boiled egg when the shell won’t separate from the egg.
Sosna chuckled. No, she said, the eggs just get boiled for 9 minutes, then are transferred to iced water. Still, that’s a lot of ice. And a lot of eggs.
Think about that when you see the news footage of kids chasing eggs around the White House lawn.
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