By Song Zixun and Zhang Xiaodong
宋子洵、张晓东
SHENYANG, Nov. 29 (ChinaMil) -- Recently, the Support Department of Ground Force under the PLA Northern Theater Command launched an activity themed “Chefs Going to Frontiers”. They organized a batch of famous chefs to visit the outpost stations of the border-defense forces, where the chefs conducted vocational skills appraisals for the cooks in grass-roots troops, taught them practical cooking skills and found out the dietary needs of grass-roots officers and soldiers.
近日，北部战区陆军保障部开展“名厨走边关”活动，上连队进哨所，为基层炊事员进行职业技能鉴定，同时了解官兵饮食需求，手把手传授厨艺。
Logistic assistant Lan Gang introduced that the frontier and coastal defense troops under the PLA Northern Theater Command Army have a large number of personnel and outpost stations that are widely distributed. In the cookhouses of these troops, members with graded cooking certificates only account for 70%, and most of the cooking staff are self-taught. Due to a lack of professional training, they are not good at arranging healthy and delicious meals.
该部助理员兰刚介绍，战区陆军所属边海防部队，点多线长面广，连队哨所呈分散状态，有等级厨师证的炊事班长只占70%，炊事员大多是连队“土生土长”，经过专业培训的不多，在科学营养配餐方面还有“短板”。
He added that carrying out the “Famous Chefs Going to Borders” activity is just to provide a learning opportunity to those who have been working in cooking positions at the border and coastal defense troops for a long time but have not obtained graded certificates of cook.
他介绍，开展“名厨走边关”活动，就是要为长期在边海防炊事岗位工作且未取得烹饪专业技能等级资格的人员送去学习提高的机会。
It is learnt that this activity lasted for 12 days, and the team traveled more than 5,800 kilometers, sending practical cooking tutorials for first-line cooks in the grass-roots barracks. The chefs gave on-spot instructions on plateau diet, ethnic catering, field training meals, etc. In addition, they conducted graded appraisals for 94 grass-roots cooks, among whom 17 obtained intermediate and advanced certificates, and 56 obtained junior ones.
据了解，此次服务活动历时12天，服务队行程5800多公里，为基层一线炊事员送去烹饪实用教程，内容涵盖高原饮食、少数民族餐饮、野外驻训餐食等，并对94名基层炊事员进行等级厨师鉴定考核，其中有17人获中高级厨师等级证书，56人取得初级厨师等级证书。
With the help of these famous chefs, the professional skills of cooks in frontier defense and coastal troops have been improved to a new level.
经名厨帮带后，边防炊事员的专业技能有了新的提升。
