1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,679 Speaker 1: If you ever cook Thanksgiving for a crowd, finished product, 2 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: I need over five hundred pounds of turkey breast, just 3 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: turkey breast. 4 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 2: How about a crowd of four thousand? That's the job. 5 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 3: Frank van Overbeek is saddled with as the executive chef 6 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 3: at the Pine Street End. He has to start planning 7 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 3: the famous Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless months aheat a time, 8 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,600 Speaker 3: and by this point the prep is non stop. 9 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 4: Cooking, cooling, slicing and so on for the whole week. 10 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 3: Seven hundred pounds of potatoes is a lot to juggle, 11 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 3: but they actually make all of that the day of. 12 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 5: And on top of that, we're still doing those other 13 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 5: thirty seven hundred meals every day, so we have to 14 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 5: kind of squeeze out all in between you. 15 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 3: But Frank says, this is a hugely important time for 16 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 3: the people here. 17 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,599 Speaker 5: It's got to be the low point of anyone's life. 18 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 5: It's really going to be driven home around holidays. 19 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,160 Speaker 3: Kyle Shaffle WBS Boston Shous Radio