They’re cookin’ up goulash, borshch, and kasha… the soldiers say that the enemy could tell their positions by the yummy smell (it spreads for metres around).
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A KP-30 field kitchen cooks meals for 30 guys.
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“I’m not a chef! I’m a COOK!” thundered Senior Cook-Instructor Vitaly Razamazov. For 15 years, he’s fed the crew of the Guards cruiser Varyag. He made his famous pea soup, stewed meat with kasha, and compote.
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Submariners get special rations, which include red wine and caviar. All ships on extended deployment receive additional allotments of kolbasa and meat.
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It only took five minutes! The cook decorated this vinagret with rosettes of carrot and pickles.
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Now, that borshch with salo… that’s GOOD EATS!
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Russian rations have 4,000 calories per day, the largest in the world.
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The standard bill of fare includes over 200 items… it includes Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Georgian national foods.
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However, the staff of life is still bread… and army bakers can still bake it under field conditions.
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Of course, the troops bitch and moan about the food (all good soldiers do)… they call it “Belka and Strelka” (two Sov dogs shot into space… it’s a Russian way of saying Ken-L-Ration). Nonetheless, they chow it down, and most of it is objectively good (just like the US mess halls… they do put out high-quality stuff… just pop in on Thanksgiving and find out).
BMD
Adapted from a piece in Komsomolskaya Pravda http://msk.kp.ru/daily/26266/3144635/
Voices from Russia 
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