On Cooking A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals

Attractively designed andextensively illustrated with color photographs, line drawings, charts, and sidebars, thiscontemporary 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. For Chefs, Restaurant Managers and others in the food service industry.Labensky, Sarah R. is the author of 'On Cooking A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals', published 2002 under ISBN 9780130606280 and ISBN 0130606286.