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세계 각국의 전투식량으로 세계 최고 미슐랭을 위한 요리 만들기 MRE Military Food Transformed into Artistic Michelin Star Meal Platings: VIDEO

경제문화 Economy, Culture/푸드얘기 Food2017. 4. 19. 03:54

MRE Military Food Transformed into Artistic

Michelin Star Meal Platings

요리사 척 조지, 비디오 예술가 지미 팜, 그리고 사진작가 헨리 하그리브즈는

미슐랭 스타 요리 행사에서 가장 주목받을 수 있는 것을 만들기 위해 하나의 팀으로 뭉쳤다.

세계 각국의 전투식량 중에 입에 안맞는 것은 '모든 사람에게 퇴짜 맞은 음식'이라는 별칭들이 붙여졌고

부친이 군인이었던 조지에게 전투식량은 어릴 적 먹기 싫었던 것들을 골라냈던 기억을 떠오르게 했다.

팀은 여기에 힌트를 얻어 미슐랭 스타 요리대회에서 각국의 전투식량 중 필요한 것만 빼내 요리를 만들기 시작헸다.

한마디로 최악의 재료로 세계 최고의 레스토랑인 미슐랭에서 진짜 최고 요리처럼 보이게 하는 것이 주과제였다.

미국을 비롯해 러시아 리투아니아 중국 프랑스 한국의 전투식량까지 준비됐다.

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Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor

By Jessica Stewart on April 17, 2017

Chef Chuck George, videographer Jimmy Pham, and photographer Henry Hargreaves have teamed up to give some of the most unappealing food available the Michelin star treatment. MRE—Meals Ready to Eat—keep troops going strong around the globe, but their unpalatable contents have earned them nicknames like “meals rejected by everyone.”

For George, whose father was a serviceman, MRE reminded him of sampling the contents as a child. “I like to think my father brought them home for me as a declaration to explore and be outdoors,” writes George. Wishing to revisit his childhood and give reverence to the meals that run the military, George joined Pham and Hargreaves in creating From MRE to Michelin.

After sourcing MRE from different armies around the globe, each course was artfully arranged in the manner of a Michelin star restaurant. “With this project we wanted to reimagine the meals and plate in a manner of a Michelin starred meal,” Hargreaves tells us in an email. “In essence, taking the worst food, provided to the bravest people and visually elevate it as if it were being served in one of the world’s most revered restaurants.”

From Lithuania and Russia to the United States and South Korea, From MRE to Michelin is an interesting look at how cultures feed the troops that defend their nations. With desserts like muesli in chocolate with shaved cacao and jam and main courses like noodles with tuna and sweet chili lime sauce, the offerings aren't as bad as you may think. Certainly, George's artful plating and Hargreaves glossy photography elevate these military meals to a level worthy of the mouths they feed.

Every wonder what troops eat around the world? Check out how these MRE from around the world were transformed into elegantly plated meals.