Hot Sale On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals (5th Edition)

On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals (5th Edition)

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Hot Sale On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals (5th Edition)

Specifications Sales Rank: 23136 in Books Published on: 2010-01-14 Original language:English Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 1.82" h x9.32" w x11.18" l,.66 pounds Binding: Hardcover 1224 pages Culinary text book Recipes Food safety Food preparation Tools and equipment

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Hot Sale On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals (5th Edition)

Attractively designed and extensively illustrated with color photographs, line drawings, charts, and sidebars, this contemporary introduction to cooking and food preparation focuses on information that is relevant to today's aspiring chef. Comprehensive and well-written, it emphasizes an understanding of cooking fundamentals, explores the preparation of fresh ingredients, and provides information on other relevant topics, such as food history and food science. This introduction to cooking outlines professionalism, food safety and sanitation, nutrition, recipes and menus, tools and equipment, knife skills, kitchen staples, dairy products, principles of meat, fish and vegetable cookery, garde manger, baking, and presentation.  Exciting, new features to this updated edition include:

• Healthy Cooking chapter (Chapter 23) combines materials on basic nutrition (Chapter 3 in On Cooking, 4^th edition), healthy cooking techniques and cooking for special diets such as vegetarian diets or allergic diets.