The impeccable debutant of the festival, the Respublica restaurant, presented a whole philosophy of food based on the balance of taste achieved by the selection of gastronomic pairings and mixology, the science of mixing drinks. Even at the end of the event, the team of the establishment, having stood at the table for about five hours, continued to explain to those interested with professional fanaticism what the word "mixology" means and why these are not cocktails in the usual sense.

The Respublica restaurant is an intelligent restaurant. But not an old goner, worn out over the years and stuck in a past era, but a fresh, interesting innovator who has not forgotten where his roots are. Respublica is tradition on the cloth of modernism. At least, such associations arise when you watch the dexterous hands of the restaurant chef Mikhail Nekrasov, the champion of Russia in 2013.

In addition to the original dish, Respublika's mixologist Yevgeny Shkarin selects the same unique drink, which is obtained as a result of almost alchemy - mixing sometimes faceless components, which eventually turned into a wonderful combination of flavors.

The dish should be understandable and tasty - this is how they think in the "Republic". Having tasted a perfectly served gastronomic pair of yellow chicken and a drink infused with currants, you understand that gastronomy can also bring aesthetic pleasure.

At the last barbecue festival in Gorki, I didn’t, then I decided that if I go again, then only as a judge.
How naive I was! But, now I can tell you how judging happens in food contests.

Traditionally, on the second weekend of April, in the active hotel Gorki, in the ski resort of Abzakovo, the Ufa beau monde (well, or those who thinks) and a number of restaurateurs.
The atmosphere of relaxation, a good party, delicious food, fun music. As if there is no crisis

On April 11, bUffet held another roast meat picnic.
True, even this time they added a new nomination: "porridge"

What they eat with what, who judges, read in my post.

Porridge without an ax

I'm a little late, the judges have already tasted the porridge.
Irina Rechister, brings me up to date. Thank you for your comments and help

They give me a referee's sheet. You need to try and evaluate each porridge in different categories on a ten-point scale.

Unfortunately, it was not possible to eat porridge with spoons. You need to taste a small piece, write down your impressions and proceed to the next one. To be honest, I had no idea that porridge could be cooked so divinely.

Sweet as nectar, "Guryevskaya" semolina porridge with fruits from Dmitry Tsekh

A restaurant Baron beautifully decorated oatmeal porridge

Lina Vasilishina from Russian Radio cooked delicious fruit porridge

At the festival site
V I go outside, I need to evaluate the organization of the workplace.
I meet Vitaly Baranovsky, the main organizer and inspirer of the barbecue festival

Lots of pretty girls

I saw six familiar people, not counting Max.
I even met a girl who was an Encounter pilot on our team.

And of course the enchanting Lena Lukmanova, director of a modeling agency. Too bad I didn't get to see them.

Russian Radio team in wide-brimmed hats

This is the correct layout of the workplace)

Restaurateurs prepare competitive food, which is served to everyone.
An ordinary piece from this batch is sent to the jury. Moose meat roll with lavash from Mansion.

Dmitry Tsekh, restaurateur from Yekaterinburg.

Dimitri cooks duck breast with rosemary on a portable grill.
It seems to bake in foil, his favorite feature. Last year he cooked a juicy veal in foil.

A restaurant Yoke, porridge in a pumpkin

A restaurant Baron fry a whole lamb!

mmmm, shki ribs

The chefs are preparing the layout

Group "Kasha" from Samara. Freaky guys, I'll get back to them at the end of the post

The team of my native Belarusian State University

And who are the judges?
Chairman of the jury, vice-president of the Russian Culinary Association, Mikhail Nekrasov, he won last year.
members of the Board of the Guild of Chefs of the Republic of Belarus - Alexander Gusev and Andrey Dodonov, Irina Rechister, director of the company of holidays "Magic Lamp" and food blogger Rais Gabitov.
To be honest, I watched and listened more to my experienced colleagues

The disappointment is that the jury also does not eat meat in pieces))
We cut off a small piece of meat, watched the roasting, tasted it, washed it down with water to wash off the taste and proceeded to the next dish.

B-B-Q!B-B-Q!
Ribs with grilled vegetables from Gorki restaurant

Everything is taken into account, even the serving of the dish

A restaurant Baron: Venison roll, lavash with a complex filling, ribs, vegetables on fire. Appetizing!

This is an ordinary barbecue in a plastic plate, only very tasty. restaurant Yoke

And this is a "student" kebab with tomatoes from the BSU team

When they tried "duckling breast with port wine sauce pear and kumquat ribbon and sweet potato puree with mushrooms" .
from Dmitry Tsekh even it became clear to me)

Collectively (actually not) we make a decision.
Need b quickly break everyone in all nominations and sign a diplomas. The nominations are rather conditional, but the winners are obvious. Outside, restaurateurs are already worried)

Awards and nominations

Bashkir State University team
- You can't spoil porridge with butter

Nadezhda KASYANOVA

Forum member of the E1.RU portal Dmitry Tsekh became famous throughout the country. The Yekaterinburger was not afraid, he passed the casting of a culinary show on one of the federal channels and competed for the main cash prize - one million rubles. We met with an amateur chef and found out how a neurosurgeon became interested in cooking and why, in his opinion, women cook worse than men.

Dimitri neatly arranges the ingredients on the table. Today, an amateur chef prepares ravioli and sea bream. For an appetizing dish, Mediterranean fish, fresh green asparagus, eggs, shrimp, dry white wine, spices and red caviar were needed.

So good? I want the photos to look good. Maybe take another plate? Dmitry is worried.

A user of the E1 portal became interested in cooking about five years ago. It all started with thematic forums - our hero cooked and posted photos of dishes on the site's pages. Then I decided to participate in competitions. Of course, it did not work out right away - the forum member combines a delicious hobby with the difficult work of a neurosurgeon in a Ural hospital.

I'm not lying. For ten years he worked as a doctor and suddenly began to sit on the forums, communicate with chefs, participate in competitions. Sometimes I get upset and offended when my dishes are criticized. And recently I decided to send a questionnaire to the show "Master Chef". And, oddly enough, passed the qualifying round!

In the TV show, in addition to Dmitry, four more Yekaterinburg residents were chosen, but it was the E1 forum member who got on the set and passed the tests. At the first stage, he decided to cook an Asian-style pumpkin soup with tuna tartare and won the jury over with his culinary skills.

The shooting lasted about a month, and the famous restaurateur Alexander Novikov, his companion Alexander Sorkin and the chef of the Italian restaurant Mirko Dzago sat on the jury. Before that, I starred in culinary television programs, so this was not the first experience for me.

In our kitchen, shrimp are already boiling in a saucepan, and Dmitry starts cleaning the fish, having sharpened special knives before that. Warns that bones should be removed from white fish after it is ready. Dorada cuts into small pieces and cleans the asparagus.

A real cook, as Syrnikov once said, must be clean in appearance and morals, with perfect taste, industrious, prudent, economical, sober, conscientious and God-fearing. I try to live up to these qualities.

Dmitry crushes the peeled shrimp in a blender and mixes with cream, adding a little salt, white pepper and thyme. After frying the mixture a little in a pan, it stuffs a thin dough with it. The resulting ravioli cooks over low heat.

Dimitri shares a kitchen with his wife. Although he believes that women cook worse than men.

Women always think a lot, get distracted. And it's very annoying in the kitchen. When you cook a dish, you need to concentrate, and a woman has a million thoughts in her head. Men, on the contrary, are focused on the result and think about the process. But of course, there are women who cook well, and men who do not know how to cook at all.

Pieces of fish and asparagus are fried by a member of the forum in a mixture of fragrant oils. Cream and a spoonful of red caviar are added to the evaporated wine - a delicious sauce is obtained. It remains to decorate the dish and a real restaurant masterpiece appears on the table. Dmitry says that he does not often cook like this at home - mostly on holidays and weekends. And on weekdays, after work, he enjoys his favorite dish - steak.

How do you feel about restaurants?

We don't have many good restaurants. You have to choose not to be disappointed. That's why I don't go often. So he came to one restaurant, ordered a duck and it was redone twice. Wrongly cooked, overcooked.

What about fast food?

Fast food is awesome. And high-quality fast food is not always harmful. True, it is very difficult for us to find one.

What is healthy food for you?

I myself think about whether healthy food can be tasty. So far I can't find an answer. Healthy food is different for every person. I think that you need to take a fresh and high-quality product with minimal processing.

The neurosurgeon chef did not talk about the finale of the TV project. But with pleasure he shared the secret of a good cook:

I think you can only become a good cook. Of course, if all your family members work as cooks, then something will be genetically transmitted. Well, cooking comes with experience. And this is given to everyone, no matter if you are a man or a woman.

Photo: Artem Ustyuzhanin, E1.RU, ctc.ru

Photo from open sources Deputies of the United Russia faction spoke about the laws adopted at the last meeting of the session The Chairman of the Legislative Assembly,
07/30/2019 United Russia

Forum member of the portal site Dmitry Tsekh became famous throughout the country when he passed the casting of a culinary show on one of the federal channels and competed for the main cash prize - one million rubles. We met with an amateur chef and found out how a neurosurgeon became interested in cooking and why, in his opinion, women cook worse than men.

Dimitri neatly arranges the ingredients on the table. Today, an amateur chef prepares ravioli and sea bream. For an appetizing dish, Mediterranean fish, fresh green asparagus, eggs, shrimp, dry white wine, spices and red caviar were needed.

So good? I want the photos to look good. Maybe take another plate? Dmitry is worried.

A user of the E1 portal became interested in cooking about five years ago. It all started with thematic forums - our hero cooked and posted photos of dishes on the site's pages. Then I decided to participate in competitions. Of course, it did not work out right away - the forum member combines a delicious hobby with the difficult work of a neurosurgeon in a Ural hospital.

I'm not lying. For ten years he worked as a doctor and suddenly began to sit on the forums, communicate with chefs, participate in competitions. Sometimes I get upset and offended when my dishes are criticized. And recently I decided to send a questionnaire to the Master Chef show. And, oddly enough, passed the qualifying round!

In the TV show, in addition to Dmitry, four more Yekaterinburg residents were chosen, but it was the E1 forum member who got on the set and passed the tests. At the first stage, he decided to cook an Asian-style pumpkin soup with tuna tartare and won the jury over with his culinary skills.

The shooting lasted about a month, and the famous restaurateur Alexander Novikov, his companion Alexander Sorkin and the chef of the Italian restaurant Mirko Dzago sat on the jury. Before that, I starred in culinary television programs, so this was not the first experience for me.

In our kitchen, shrimp are already boiling in a saucepan, and Dmitry starts cleaning the fish, having sharpened special knives before that. Warns that bones should be removed from white fish after it is ready. Dorada cuts into small pieces and cleans the asparagus.

A real cook, as Syrnikov once said, must be clean in appearance and morals, with perfect taste, industrious, prudent, economical, sober, conscientious and God-fearing. I try to live up to these qualities.

Dmitry crushes the peeled shrimp in a blender and mixes with cream, adding a little salt, white pepper and thyme. After frying the mixture a little in a pan, it stuffs a thin dough with it. The resulting ravioli cooks over low heat.

Dimitri shares a kitchen with his wife. Although he believes that women cook worse than men.

Women always think a lot, get distracted. And it's very annoying in the kitchen. When you cook a dish, you need to concentrate, and a woman has a million thoughts in her head. Men, on the contrary, are focused on the result and think about the process. But of course, there are women who cook well, and men who do not know how to cook at all.

Pieces of fish and asparagus are fried by a member of the forum in a mixture of fragrant oils. Cream and a spoonful of red caviar are added to the evaporated wine - a delicious sauce is obtained. It remains to decorate the dish and a real restaurant masterpiece appears on the table. Dmitry says that he does not often cook like this at home - mostly on holidays and weekends. And on weekdays, after work, he enjoys his favorite dish - steak.

- How do you feel about restaurants?

We don't have many good restaurants. You have to choose not to be disappointed. That's why I don't go often. So he came to one restaurant, ordered a duck and it was redone twice. Wrongly cooked, overcooked.

- What about fast food?

Fast food is awesome. And high-quality fast food is not always harmful. True, it is very difficult for us to find one.

- What is healthy food for you?

I myself think about whether healthy food can be tasty. So far I can't find an answer. Healthy food is different for every person. I think that you need to take a fresh and high-quality product with minimal processing.

The neurosurgeon chef did not talk about the finale of the TV project. But with pleasure he shared the secret of a good cook:

I think you can only become a good cook. Of course, if all your family members work as cooks, then something will be genetically transmitted. Well, cooking comes with experience. And this is given to everyone, no matter if you are a man or a woman.