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Food service specialists competed in the annual Chef of the Year cook-off, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Oct. 3, 2019. The competition consisted of each Chef of the Quarter winner or runner-up competing against each other in a cook-off and a series of evaluations including a written test, display/presentation and creativity. Cpl. Diamond Chislom, the winner of the competition, received a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement medal. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Jose Angeles)

Four food service specialists go head-to-head to see which Marine can make the cut and be crowned the Chef of the Year. Each contestant is a winner of this year’s 2019 Chef of the Quarter competitions. Participants are judged on the taste of the food, table and food presentation and overall knowledge of their personal menus. Watch below to see this year’s winner of the 2019 Chef of the Year competition.

U.S. Marines with Marine Corps Installations Pacific compete in a culinary competition at Camp Courtney, Okinawa, Japan, June 27-28, 2019 . Food service specialists competed in various events at the chance to be awarded Chef of the 3rd Quarter. (U.S. Marine Corps motion imagery by Lance Cpl. Nickolas Beamish)

U.S. Marines, Lance Cpl. Erika Williams and Lance Cpl. David Bahena, food service specialists with Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Base Camp Butler, fight their way to victory in the Chef of the Quarter competition on Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma, Okinawa, Japan, April 26, 2019. The Marines culinary skills were put to the test in the 4 hour cook off competition. (U.S. Marine Corps motion imagery by Lance. Cpl Kameron Herndon)

U.S. Marines compete in the 44th Annual Joint Culinary Training Exercise at Fort Lee, Virginia, March 9-14, 2019. Marines cooked alongside 200 military chefs in the largest American Culinary Federation-sanctioned culinary competition in North America. The exercise aimed at improving force readiness across the military while also promoting military culinary excellence. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Haley Gawronski, Cpl. Naomi May, Lance Cpl. Mitchell Collyer and Lance Cpl. Phuchung Nguyen)