Culinary students help cater Egg Roll

    Twenty-four students from the Culinary Arts Program volunteered to prepare food for the Annual Easter Egg Roll, held on the front lawn of the White House. The students prepared many different hors d'oeuvres for the visitors who came to celebrate Easter.

    The event began at 8 a.m., but guests had already begun to pour onto the Ellipse where the Culinary Arts students were preparing food. The Culinary students prepared 9,000 rolls, bunny buddies and egg and cheese wraps. The students spent the entire day preparing the food for the visitors.

    In order to arrive on time to the event the students met at AHS at 5 a.m. on the day of the Egg Roll to head into Washington, D.C. The Easter festivities started at 8 a.m., but the food and entertainment started on the Ellipse started at 7:30 a.m. where the culinary students were located.

    The students arrived to school around 5:30 in the morning, then some of teachers and volunteers drove them to the metro station where they got on the train and arrived at the White house around 6:45 a.m.

    “I was really excited when we first heard the news that we were invited to go to the Easter egg roll at the white house,” said senior Logan Goolrick. The Culinary Arts students were asked by A La Belle Cuisine, a professional catering company, to help with the Egg Roll.
   
    Many famous people were at the egg roll such as the Bush family, including George H.W. Bush and President George W. Bush, The Jonas Brothers, and cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny and Clifford the Big Red Dog and other characters from the PBS network. Some students got the opportunity to meet George Bush senior and Laura Bush, and got pictures taken with the former President.
   
    “It was a blast, and we were fortunate to be close enough to be able to see the festivities on the south lawn,” said Culinary Arts teacher Christine Gloninger, better known to her students as “Chef G.”
   
    At the end of the event the students went back to the Metro and took the train back home, returning late in the afternoon, fortunate enough to miss a full day of school.
   
    “I just liked the fact that we got to miss school,” said junior Kadir Mohammed. Although the students missed school, their work was voluntary and they were not paid for their assistance.