Tourist and information center of Primorye on may 9 will present the kitchen of the war years
Опубликовано: 07.05.2025
On Victory Day, a front-line gastronomic town will unfold on the central square of Vladivostok. Anyone can get acquainted with military dishes, learn the features of their preparation and the list of products used.
The war is an important and difficult period in the life of our country. The victory was forged at the front and in the rear, everyone brought it closer as he could, including the cook who at the front fed the soldiers and thereby gave them a feeling of warmth and home.
> Branded food trucks will be installed on the site of the gastronomic town from 09:00 to 22:30, where chefs of six Vladivostok restaurants and cafes will prepare military field dishes. They will try to convey a part of that time so that everyone can feel the taste of war and Victory. In the list: front-line baby, makalovka, buckwheat porridge with stew, pasta in fleet style, potatoes baked on coals and front-line sandwiches.
"Makalovka is a wonderful dish that is really worth popularizing, especially in the context of May 9. It is not only easy to prepare, but also symbolizes the era when every crumb of food mattered. Acquainting people with the kitchen of the war years is an important task, as it helps to preserve the memory of that time and people who survived the hardships of the war, shared his thoughts chef of the chain of breakfast cafes all day "Omlet Station" Azamat Mukhamedov.
About the baby she learned only recently, although this dish is mentioned in the story “Son of the regiment”. This is an army version of vegetable stew with meat. It's simple and satisfying. After all, no one will tinker in the kitchen for hours in combat conditions to come up with rascals. People should talk about the time to remember. And this can be done through the kitchen, says Galina Kim, co-founder of the family cafe "Kim Sisters".
Military dishes are a special world, special recipes and special memories. Primorsky Krai also participated in the “creation of this book”: herring went to the front in barrels, vegetables, wild plants, banks with stew under Lend-Lease numbered in the tens of thousands. The chefs themselves say that in each family there is the same connection of generations - great-grandfathers fought, and grandparents, in view of their age, worked in factories, collected spikelets in the fields. And the proposals to recreate the dishes of those harsh years, but with an amendment to date, were adopted unanimously.
" The role of catering points at any time was of high importance. During the Great Patriotic War, it is not only jobs, basic livelihoods, but also a rather high social meaning: life goes on, we are not broken. Of course, I wanted to honor the memory of those who performed this role. Remember those simple dishes that warmed both the civilian population and those who were on the front lines. These dishes live today in the kitchens of Russian people, in restaurants and in street food formats, says Ksenia Mukshtanova, operating director of the street food chain Food and Point.
To hear about the events of the Great Patriotic War firsthand is almost impossible, there are too few people who remember those terrible years. But we have a memory: today we learn about the war from books, diaries with yellowed pages, flashing black and white footage of the chronicles. The kitchen is one of the memories, a kind of connection of generations. Through products, old recipes, the work of cooks, we tried to convey the atmosphere of those years. The chefs of Vladivostok offer dishes-history. But they cook in modern conditions, not to the sound of whistling bullets and the roar of cannonade. But each of the guys has his own story, has his own connection with the events of 80 years ago. And preparing the dish, they invested in it not only their soul, but also the memory of their grandfathers and great-grandparents, said the director of the Tourist Information Center of the Primorsky Territory (Visit Primorye) Olga Gurevich
The organizer of the military-time dishes on May 9 at the central square of Vladivostok was the Ministry of Tourism and the Primorsky Information Center ( >