Topic: Army Rations
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No More Ulcers?
Time was when cooks were recruited from the army's odds and sods. If you were a manic-depressive, looked like a camel on the parade square, and otherwise showed no visible talent for the military life they made you a cook.
Montreal Gazette, 9 July 1956
(Vancouver province) — Canadian army cooks, fabled in song and story, are nowadays rising to the giddy eminence of career men with finishing courses at the British Army cooking school at Caterham, England.
Time was when cooks were recruited from the army's odds and sods. If you were a manic-depressive, looked like a camel on the parade square, and otherwise showed no visible talent for the military life they made you a cook.
Now you must be able to read, and find your way around in English recipe books, which calls for even more concentration than ordinary military manuals. Not that there is any danger of cooks going intellectual. Any incipient tendencies of that sort would be taken care of at Caterham.
There is to be a certain professional polish in the Canadian army cuisine henceforth, no doubt affording such intriguing items as "Boeuf de Bully aux Brisquet" and "Garlina-Anacauna Spaghetti" and stuff like that.
But will the British army standards really reduce the incidence of peptic ulcers in the Canadian army?
Inj the last war Canadian army cooking and the Canadian ration were dismaying, but British army cooking was enough to shatter one's faith in the Empire.
The state of Culinary Arts in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) today:
- CAF at the United States Military Culinary Arts competition (2013)
- Canadian Forces Recognize Culinary Skills – Chef Training Program (2011)
- Creative cooking earns silver medal for Canadian Forces cooks (2012)
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