MOF Christian Vabret gives a conference at SYB baking center
记法国最佳面点师Christian Vabret先生于海上青焙坊烘焙中心的研讨会
On November 5th, the SYB team and Young Bakers had the honor to welcome a world-wide known name of the bakery industry: MOF Baker Christian Vabret.
11月5日下午，海上青焙坊全体学员和工作人员有幸迎来一位闻名烘焙业的重要人物到访，他便是法国最佳面点师Christain Vabret 先生。
On his way to Jakarta for the Asian Bakery Competition, Christian took the opportunity to make a stop in Shanghai and meet the Young Bakers.
Christian此行为赴雅加达出席烘焙世界杯亚太区比赛，但他决定中途在海上青焙坊稍作停留，与学员们见面。
His father being a baker himself, Christian Vabret started learning the traditional French bakery skill at the age of 16 by working in his family business. While expanding his family business and graduating from the CAP, he trained and attended many competitions, until he successfully obtained the highest recognition in France: MOF (Meilleur Ouvrier de France= Best Craftsman of France) in the bakery skill in the year 1986. In 1989 he founded the French team of French bakery and organized the first edition of the World Bakery Cup in 1992. And in order to continue training the French youth to the art of baking, Christian established his own school, EFBPA (Ecole Française de Boulangerie et Pâtisserie d’Aurillac), which has now become one of the best bakery and pastry schools in France.
Christian的父辈皆为面包师，他从16岁开始就在自家的面包作坊帮忙，学习传统法式烘焙。他一方面着手扩展家族的烘焙产业，一方面努力考取CAP职业技能合格证书。不懈的训练和丰富的比赛经验最终让他于1986 年获得 MOF（法国最佳面点师）殊荣，这在法国代表着对手工艺者最高级的认可。1989年他组织了一支法式烘焙专业团队，并于 1992年举办了首届烘焙世界杯大赛。此外，为了让年轻人能够传承法式烘焙的艺术，Christian创立了他自己的烘焙学校EFBPA（奥里亚克烘焙学校Ecole Française de Boulangerie et Pâtisserie d’Aurillac），如今已是法国最好的面包和甜点学校之一。
Since the program’s launch in 2009, Christian Vabret has been a strong supporter of SYB: by sharing his expertise in the bakery field, he contributed to the high-quality training we are now able to offer to the students. Indeed, the SYB training program follows the EFBPA curriculum, which in France is validated by the CAP diploma. Moreover, all the SYB trainers, both in pastry and bakery, followed the 6-month training at EFBPA and graduated from the institute with the French CAP diploma.
自2009年本项目伊始，Christian Vabret先生便从各方面对海上青焙坊提供支持：我们今天得以为学员们提供高质量的烘焙培训，得益于他与我们分享EFBPA（法国奥里亚克烘焙学校）课程培训素材，这套课程是法国政府CAP职业技能合格证书所认证的；我们项目全部5名烘焙老师都曾得到在EFBPA学习半年的机会，并最终获得正式 CAP证书。
On that afternoon, the Young Bakers listened attentively to Christian sharing about the EFBPA, the World Cup and the art of baking in general, while showing many pictures. It was a great chance for them to see that other students, even 10.000kms away from them, are sharing the same passion and goals! They were also very excited and impressed to learn that Zhang Zhenghai, if winning the Asian World Cup as part of the China team, would be qualified to compete at the World Bakery Cup in Paris next February!
当天下午，Christian先生用丰富的图片和生动的语言对EFBPA烘焙学校及烘焙世界杯的情况进行介绍，并分享了他对烘焙艺术的见解，海上青焙坊学员听得非常专心。让他们看到远隔重洋的其他国家的学生正同样充满热情地学习烘焙，是非常好的激励。当学员们得知张政海老师如果能在亚太区比赛中携中国队胜出，就能够参加明年二月在法国巴黎举行的烘焙世界杯，他们不禁更加欢欣激动!
On behalf of the Young Bakers and SYB team, we would like to warmly thank M. Christian Vabret for its longstanding support to our program and for spending some time with the Young Bakers and sharing about the beautiful art of baking!
我谨代表海上青焙坊全体学员与工作人员，诚挚感谢Christian Vabret先生与青焙坊的同学们共度宝贵时光、分享烘焙奥秘。同时更要感谢Christian先生长久以来对本项目的支持！
Emilie, Program Director
艾米丽，项目经理