Vice Presidential Pool Reports of November 28, 2024

VP pool #1: Gathered at DC Central Kitchen

Happy Thanksgiving day! Your pool is gathered and preset at DC Central Kitchen, a local food nonprofit that provides free meals and culinary job training.

VP Harris, Second Gentleman Emhoff and their family will be volunteering at the organization's SW DC headquarters (family members' names will be in the next report). The organization is expecting to serve about 69,000 meals this Thanksgiving, according to local news reports.

VP pool #2: VP and family entered kitchen

VP Harris and her family entered the industrial-scale kitchen at 11:26am. Three large tables are set up in a U shape with big plastic bins of collard greens, empty plastic bins and cutting boards. Behind them are bins filled with cut up butternut squash. On the other side of the kitchen, workers and volunteers are sealing completed meals. The family is washing their hands and are all wearing baseball caps with the DC Central Kitchen logo. They also put on gloves and went to their stations.

Dusty Cooper, COO, and Malik taught the assembled group how to take the stem out of the center of the collard greens.

Family members present include:

Ella Emhoff

Cole Emhoff and Greenley Littlejohn

Maya Harris and Tony West Meena Harris and her daughters, Amara and Leela

VP pool report #3: chatter while de-stemming collard greens

"This is not my first rodeo," Ella Emhoff said while de-stemming the greens.

Meena Harris told Ella Emhoff how she likes to cook and pickle them.

VP Harris asked one of the DC Central Kitchen chefs how they cook them. Harris said she puts garlic and brown sugar in her collard greens.

Ella Emhoff was chatting with the workers about various food recipes (your pooler was set closest to her).

"Everything in this family is a competition," Meena Harris said, which VP Harris then repeated with a laugh, "Everything in this family is a competition."

The VP took some of the Second Gentleman's collard greens, to which he joked "why are you taking mine?"

Workers have been bustling in and out to take full buckets out and bring new ones in.

Leela asked her dad where collard greens grow and the VP said all states.

Doug Emhoff asked how Ella Emhoff was doing and she responded, "I'm already on my second bucket." He responded, "Well, I'm older."

Doug Emhoff jokingly asked Leela if she was bragging (presumably about how fast she was de-stemming the collard greens).

A reporter asked VP Harris what she was making for dinner, she said she is making:

Turkey
Ham
Famous cornmeal stuffing
Sweet potatoes
Scalloped potatoes
String beans
Brussel sprouts
Salad
Dinner rolls

A reporter asked Harris what is next for her. VP Harris responded "Thanksgiving dinner."

Press left the room at 11:48am.

VP pool #3: Motorcade departed
[APP Note: This is Report #4. See reporter's correction in Report #5.]

VP's motorcade departed at 12:17pm (pool was traveling unilaterally). I'll send a note when we receive word that she is back at the residence, and we have a lid.

VP pool #5: lid

Last report should have been #4, numbering is accurate on this one.

We have a lid as of 12:31 pm.

Some additional background from the VP's office:

Greeting the Vice President and the Second Gentleman upon arrival to DC Central Kitchen

Greeters

Micheal Curtain Jr., CEO of DC Central Kitchen Joy McIntyre, Director of Guest Experience, DC Central Kitchen