Download or read book The Practical Chef s Reference written by Russell Furdell and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Practical Chef's Reference: A Compendium of Charts, Formulas, and Ratios is designed to serve as a data reference and a basic formula reference. Developed to address the need for a compact, single source, comprehensive culinary data reference, this book provides broad coverage of culinary arts fundamentals in an accessible chart format.
Download or read book The Chefs Reference Guide written by Frederick Joseph Tiess and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Professional Chef written by The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) and published by Wiley Global Education. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The bible for all chefs." —Paul Bocuse Named one of the five favorite culinary books of this decade by Food Arts magazine, The Professional Chef is the classic kitchen reference that many of America's top chefs have used to understand basic skills and standards for quality as well as develop a sense of how cooking works. Now, the ninth edition features an all-new, user-friendly design that guides readers through each cooking technique, starting with a basic formula, outlining the method at-a-glance, offering expert tips, covering each method with beautiful step-by-step photography, and finishing with recipes that use the basic techniques. The new edition also offers a global perspective and includes essential information on nutrition, food and kitchen safety, equipment, and product identification. Basic recipe formulas illustrate fundamental techniques and guide chefs clearly through every step, from mise en place to finished dishes. Includes an entirely new chapter on plated desserts and new coverage of topics that range from sous vide cooking to barbecuing to seasonality Highlights quick reference pages for each major cooking technique or preparation, guiding you with at-a-glance information answering basic questions and giving new insights with expert tips Features nearly 900 recipes and more than 800 gorgeous full-color photographs Covering the full range of modern techniques and classic and contemporary recipes, The Professional Chef, Ninth Edition is the essential reference for every serious cook.
Download or read book The Culinary Reference Guide written by Frederick Joseph Tiess and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chef s Secrets written by and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chef’s Secrets—Revealed! In Chef’s Secrets, more than 80 renowned chefs share the tricks, timesaving techniques, and kitchen wisdom they’ve learned through years of experience. • Steven Raichlen on Building a Three-Zone Fire on a Charcoal Grill • Charlie Palmer on Roasting a Perfect Turkey • Bruce Aidells on the Secret to Flavorful Pork • Gary Guitard on Tempering Chocolate • Plus techniques from Sara Moulton, Marcus Samuelsson, Norman Van Aken, Roxanne Klein, James Peterson, Emily Luchetti, and dozens of other top-notch chefs! Each technique is explained in the chef’s own words, along with a short, revealing interview and a detailed profile of the chef’s accomplishments. With tips stretching from the basics (how to peel ginger with a teaspoon) to the extreme (how to peel a tomato with a blow-torch), Chef’s Secrets is an essential reference for any food lover’s bookshelf!
Download or read book Practical Cookery written by David Foskett and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 1317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical Cookery has been training chefs for 50 years. It is the only book you need to support you through your training, and will serve as a recipe book and reference source throughout your career. With over 600 recipes in the book, and more online, the range is unsurpassed. Many recipes have been developed and updated, using modern techniques and methods tested in real working kitchens. Others are traditional, reliable favourites that have grown up with Practical Cookery. Now with video links: Use the QR code or web link to view some of the recipes on your smartphone, laptop or tablet. Teaching the best in the business for 50 years - don't train to be a chef without it.
Download or read book The Professional Chef s Techniques of Healthy Cooking written by The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2000-02-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared by The Culinary Institute of America, which has been hailed by Time magazine as "the nation's most influential training school for cooks," The Professional Chef's® Techniques of Healthy Cooking, Second Edition, offers nutritional cooking techniques and theories that have been tested and proven in the Institute's kitchens. It begins with the language of nutrition. The lessons of the USDA food guide pyramid, the Mediterranean pyramid, and a vegetarian pyramid from the American Dietetic Association (ADA) are used as a foundation for the Institute's seven principles of healthy cooking. They call upon the chef to introduce a wider array of foods such as fruits, grains, and vegetables into dishes. Successful strategies for cooking with less fat, moderating salt, and choosing and using healthy sweeteners are included as well. A separate section on creating healthy menus covers menu and recipe development, nutritional analysis, and nutrition labeling in menus and advertising. Special features of this incomparable guide include: Seven principles of healthy cooking Nearly 400 of the Institute's best recipes - 200 of them new to this edition Over 250 photos that illustrate basic and advanced preparation techniques and inspire with elegant presentations for healthful dishes Practical tips for healthy sauteing, stir frying, grilling, baking, smoke-roasting, and more Dependable guidelines for selecting healthy, fresh ingredients A nutritional analysis for each recipe, with separate breakdowns for sauces, side dishes, and other components Filled with time-tested and refined techniques for maximizing both nutrition and flavor, The Professional Chef's® Techniques of Healthy Cooking, Second Edition, is a completely trustworthy and irreplaceable reference for anyone interested in creating the finest, healthiest, and most flavorful of meals.
Download or read book ChefMD s Big Book of Culinary Medicine written by John La Puma and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2009 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating nutritional science with culinary expertise, a physician explains how to prevent disease, shed pounds, and promote overall health by using foods that tempt the palate while promoting the body's immunity.
Download or read book Chef s Book of Formulas Yields and Sizes written by Arno Schmidt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-09-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate quick-reference cost control resource for busy kitchens The Chef's Book of Formulas, Yields, and Sizes is a powerful tool for controlling food costs in any foodservice operation. Now in an updated third edition, this encyclopedic reference is packed with helpful, practical information, including kitchen yields for more than 2,000 ingredients listed by food groups, sample purchase quantities, suggested serving sizes, tips and tricks for working with various ingredients, and other helpful tools for getting the most out of any size budget. This Third Edition broadens the knowledge of seasoned chefs and novices alike with new material on 150 previously unlisted ingredients, as well as: Coverage of ingredients unique to Indian, Chinese, Latin, and Japanese cooking Information on caloric counts, nutrition, and seasonal foods Serving sizes accepted in most fine restaurants A versatile, exhaustive resource, the Chef's Book of Formulas, Yields, and Sizes also offers many informative, easy-to-read tables for quick access to facts on can and bottle sizes, weights and measures, steam table pan sizes, and table and tablecloth sizes, as well as more than fifty basic, large-quantity recipes for mousses, soups, dough, cakes, and much more. The Chef's Book of Formulas, Yields, and Sizes, Third Edition is absolutely indispensable for any foodservice professional who must calculate costs for inventory management or determine exact measurements for portion control.
Download or read book Cooking A to Z written by Jane Horn and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of food--now available in trade paper. Thoroughly researched and written in consultation with the chefs of the California Culinary Academy, this practical and comprehensive reference book is a must for every cook. In nearly 500 alphabetically aranged entries, it covers the basics as well as almost every conceivable trick and skill a cook will ever need. 469 color photographs. Line drawings. 22 charts.
Download or read book Practical Cookery 14th Edition written by David Foskett and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 1602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trust Practical Cookery: the classic recipe and reference book used to train professional chefs for over 50 years. This 14th edition of Practical Cookery is the must-have resource for every aspiring chef. It will help develop the culinary knowledge, understanding, skills and behaviours in the new Commis Chef (Level 2) apprenticeship standards and prepare apprentices and work-based learners for end-point assessment. It also supports those on NVQ programmes in Professional Cookery or Food Production and Cooking. · Covers the latest preparation, cooking and finishing techniques, as well as the classics every chef should master with over 500 reliable recipes and 1,000 photographs. · Provides clear illustration of how dishes should look with close-up finished shots for every recipe, and clear step-by-step sequences to master techniques. · Ensures learners are fully up to date, with new content on the latest technology within the hospitality sector, up-to-date safe and hygienic working requirements, and new content on costing and yield control. · Helps assess knowledge and understanding with a new 'Know it' feature that will support preparation for professional discussions or knowledge tests. · Allows students to showcase the practical skills required for assessment with new 'Show it' activities. · Encourages apprentices to think about how they have demonstrated professional behaviours with new reflective 'Live it' activities.
Download or read book Advanced Practical Cookery written by John Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: em>Advanced Practical Cookery, 4th edition, has been fully revised and updated to match the latest specifications at levels 3 and Foundation degrees . Now in paperback and with specially commissioned full colour photographs throughout, this essential resource for the highest training levels includes over 600 international recipes, all specifically tailored for the skilled craft student and chef. Examining new advanced units introduced by City & Guilds in detail, this new edition is also written and designed with the student reader in mind, and now includes nutrition and healthy eating advice, tips and essential kitchen advice. The contributions of executive chef and new co-author John Campbell also bring a unique industry focus to the content, ensuring the text is targeted specifically at the needs of trainee chefs and professionals alike. Contemporary, accessible and above all practical, Advanced Practical Cookery, 4th edition, is the ideal ingredient for advanced food preparation and cooking techniques.
Download or read book The Professional Chef written by The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2006-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A serious reference for serious cooks." —Thomas Keller, Chef and owner, The French Laundry Named one of the five favorite culinary books of this decade by Food Arts magazine, The Professional Chef is the classic resource that many of America's top chefs have relied on to help learn their cooking skills. Now this comprehensive "bible for all chefs" (Paul Bocuse) has been thoroughly revised and expanded to reflect the way people cook and eat today. The book includes essential information on nutrition, food and kitchen safety, and tools and ingredients, as well as more than 640 classic and contemporary recipes plus variations. 131 basic recipe formulas illustrate fundamental techniques and guide cooks clearly through every step, from mise en place to finished dishes. This edition features nearly 650 all-new four-color photographs of fresh food products, step-by-step techniques, and plated dishes taken by award-winning photographer Ben Fink Explores culinary traditions of the Americas, Asia, and Europe, and includes four-color photographs of commonly used ingredients and maps of all regions Written "with extreme vigor and precision" (Eric Ripert), The Professional Chef is an unrivaled reference and source of inspiration for the serious cook.
Download or read book What s a Cook to Do written by James Peterson and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From America’s favorite cooking teacher, multiple award-winner James Peterson, an invaluable reference handbook. Culinary students everywhere rely on the comprehensive and authoritative cookbooks published by chef, instructor, and award-winning author Jim Peterson. And now, for the first time, this guru-to-the-professionals turns his prodigious knowledge into a practical, chockablock, quick-reference, A-to-Z answer book for the rest of us. Look elsewhere for how to bone skate or trim out a saddle of lamb, how to sauté sweetbreads or flambé dessert. Look here instead for how to zest a lemon, make the perfect hamburger, bread a chicken breast, make (truly hot) coffee in a French press, make magic with a Microplane. It’s all here: how to season a castiron pan, bake a perfect pie, keep shells from sticking to hardcooked eggs. How to carve a turkey, roast a chicken, and chop, slice, beat, broil, braise, or boil any ingredient you’re likely to encounter. Information on seasoning, saucing, and determining doneness (by internal temperatures, timings, touch, and sight) guarantee that you’ve eaten your last bland and overcooked meal. Here are 500 invaluable techniques with nearly as many color photographs, bundled into a handy, accessible format.
Download or read book Culinary Artistry written by Andrew Dornenburg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1996-11-14 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Culinary Artistry...Dornenburg and Page provide food and flavor pairings as a kind of steppingstone for the recipe-dependent cook...Their hope is that once you know the scales, you will be able to compose a symphony." --Molly O'Neil in The New York Times Magazine. For anyone who believes in the potential for artistry in the realm of food, Culinary Artistry is a must-read. This is the first book to examine the creative process of culinary composition as it explores the intersection of food, imagination, and taste. Through interviews with more than 30 of America's leading chefsa including Rick Bayless, Daniel Boulud, Gray Kunz, Jean-Louis Palladin, Jeremiah Tower, and Alice Watersa the authors reveal what defines "culinary artists," how and where they find their inspiration, and how they translate that vision to the plate. Through recipes and reminiscences, chefs discuss how they select and pair ingredients, and how flavors are combined into dishes, dishes into menus, and menus into bodies of work that eventually comprise their cuisines.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Success as a Chef written by Leslie Bilderback CMB and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to thrive in one of today’s top ten “dream professions.” Despite the long hours, arduous training, and grueling physical work, the allure of being a professional chef has made it one of the fastest growing career markets in America today. In this must-have guide, a master chef and baker gives practical, up-to-date advice on everything aspiring chefs (and expert chefs looking for the next career move) need to know, including how to apprentice at a five-star restaurant, connect with renowned chefs and bakers, open their own restaurant, and much, much more. • Expert author with decades of restaurant experience. • One of today’s top ten “dream professions” in America. • Culinary institutes have seen an explosion in their enrollment of between 50% to 100% annually. • Covers gourmet restaurants, upscale hotels, catering, specialty food shops, gourmet takeout, bakeries, and much more.
Download or read book The Practical Hotel Steward written by John Tellman and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
