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Robert Egger D.C. Tribute Party: D.C. Central Kitchen Founder Gets $1 Million For L.A. Kitchen
By Brandon Wetherbee, The Huffington Post
February 8, 2013
Local luminaries paid tribute Monday night to Robert Egger, the founder of the 24-year old D.C. Central Kitchen who has moved to Los Angeles to build L.A. Kitchen, a sibling non-profit food distribution and job training organization.
The tribute party at The Hamilton was filled with well-wishers, chefs, musicians, D.C. Central Kitchen staff, philanthropists and other local notables.
The program included AARP Foundation Senior Vice President Maxine Baker presenting Egger with a check for $1 million to help the new L.A. Kitchen and some kind words from José Andrés, the James Beard Foundation award-winning chef, whose ThinkFoodGroup runs restaurants in the nation's capital and Los Angeles, among other places.
D.C. Central Kitchen employees lined up and each read one sentence of a D.C. Council resolution to make Jan. 20 "Robert Egger Day" in the nation's capital.
Andrés will serve as L.A. Kitchen's founding chairman. Mike Curtin Jr. will continue to run the D.C. nonprofit.
