Oh uh, the White House has trouble on its hands.
Nine-year-old Noah Koch of Waterville, Maine, was a winner of this year’s “Healthy Lunchtime Challenge,” which meant he got to travel to D.C. this week to attend the White House Kids’ State Dinner.
But while Koch was dazzled with his time at 1600 Penn (more about that later) he did have one complaint–the picture that accompanied his “Vegan Powerhouse Pesto Pasta” recipe on the Let’s Move blog was wrong, he told a group of Congressional staffers and reporters at a Capitol Hill luncheon Thursday for the Veggie Caucus.
“First of all, the pesto is supposed to be very thick and, as you can see on the picture, there is barely any pesto,” Koch pointed out. “The spinach is supposed to be cut up by blender, which you see it whole there, and then there’s parmesan cheese sprinkled on top, which I don’t like, because it is not vegan,” he continued. “And then the tomatoes are not supposed to be cut up, they are supposed to be little cherry tomatoes,” he finished.
Other then that, the tiny chef did have a good time meeting President Obama. “He gave me the thumbs up, he gave me the fist bumps and I shook his hand,” Koch told the crowd.
Koch’s mom had told him about the recipe contest and he wanted to enter so he could head to the White House. “I wanted to step past the gates, get through security and walk in,” he explained. As far as choosing a vegan recipe, Koch was pretty confident that it would come out a winner. “Because I knew that the challenge was about health and taste,” he said. “Mine tasted great and I knew that eating vegan is very, very, very healthy.”
