MREs, Escoffier and sculptures in sugar

"K.P. with the culinary arts":

Staff Sgt. Jesus Camacho, the Army's reigning king of sugar sculpture, recently finished a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Last Wednesday, the 6-foot-2, 220-pound sergeant spent 90 minutes creating an undersea tableau: a lobster on a bed of coral, near a green wine bottle with a message curled inside, all made from sugar. In Afghanistan, he was responsible for feeding 500 soldiers a day. "There's no time to practice sugar when you're deployed," he said. "But at night I would read Pastry magazine."