The most authoritative, complete glossary of the culinary arts: now includes over 25,000 entries! 
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<li> Includes phonetic pronunciation guidance, nearly 300 line drawings, metric conversions, measurement equivalents, and much more. </li>
<li> Coverage includes food identification, preparation and cooking methods, nutrition, sanitation, equipment, wine, international foods, hospitality, nutrition, food chemistry, prepared dishes, and more. </li>
<li> Best-selling First Edition was a 1998 James Beard Foundation Award nominee. </li>
</ul> This authoritative, exceptionally complete dictionary of the culinary arts will be an invaluable resource for every culinary professional. The first edition was honored as a 1998 James Beard Foundation Award Nominee; this new Second Edition includes 60% more entries, making it even more useful. This book contains over 25,000 entries covering food identification, preparation and cooking methods, nutrition, sanitation, tools and equipment, wine, beer and spirits, cigars, international foods, hospitality and restaurant management, food chemistry, prepared dishes, food history, gastronomy, and more. Designed for easy reading, the book is full of helpful line drawings, cross-references and phonetic pronunciation guidance. It includes handy tables of metric conversions, measurement equivalents, commonly used international terms, sugar cooking temperatures, oversized wine bottles, and more. Sarah R. Labensky is Director of the Culinary Arts Institute at Mississippi University for Women. She is co-author of Applied Math for Food Service (Prentice Hall 1998), On Baking: A Textbook of Baking and Pastry Fundamentals, and On Cooking, Second Edition (Prentice Hall 1998). She is active in the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and a member of The James Beard Foundation, Women Chefs &amp; Restaurateurs and Les Dames d'Escoffier.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Culinary Arts (Trade Version) (2nd Edition)

Reference

LaBensky, Sarah R.

Labensky, Steven

Ingram, Gaye G.

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Pearson P T R

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. For Chefs, Restaurant Managers and others in the food service industry.

On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals

Business & Money

Hause, Alan M.

Industries

Pearson College Div

This unique, exceptionally comprehensive dictionary of the culinary arts defines approximately 20,000 terms (including “foreign terms” from all the world's cuisines, not just European). The entries are drawn from such varied categories as: foods, international foods, prepared dishes, preparation and cooking methods, tools and equipment, food chemistry, beers, spirits, and wines, hospitality and restaurant management, nutrition, food safety and sanitation, chef biographies, food history, and gastronomy. Measurement and conversion charts, phonetic pronunciations, cross-references, and origins and usage designations will be useful to professional or amateur chefs—or anyone who simply enjoys food.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Culinary Arts (2nd Edition)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

This unique exceptionally comprehensive dictionary contains over 25,000 entries covering food identification, preparation and cooking methods, nutrition, sanitation, tools and equipment, wine, beer and spirits, cigars, international foods, food chemistry, historical and cultural terms, hospitality terms and prepared dishes. Authoritative yet concise entries Accurate use of capitalization and accent marks Simple, alphabetical listing for all entries, including abbreviations Extensive cross-references 285 line drawings Easy to read typeface and format Phonetic pronunciation guides Additionally, there are 14 appendices covering areas such as: metric conversions, measurement equivalents, commonly used international terms, sugar cooking temperatures, oversized wine bottles and more!

The Prentice Hall Dictionary Of Culinary Arts

Labensky, Sarah

This package contains the following components:  0131195786: DVD - Knife Skills 0131716727: Prentice Hall Dictionary of Culinary Arts, The: Academic Version 0135101530: MyCulinaryLab 013715576X: On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals 0131579231: On Baking: A Textbook of Baking and Pastry Fundamentals 0131713329: Cooking Techniques DVD 0132557800: MasterCook 11

On Cooking / On Baking / The Prentice Hall Distionary of Culinary Arts / Knife Skills for Chefs / Cooking Techniques: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals / A Textbook of Baking and Pastry Fundamentals

Martel, Priscilla A.

Van Damme, Eddy

Cooking Methods

PRENTICE/HALL

On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals, Sixth Canadian Edition Plus MyCulinaryLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (6th Edition) [Paperback]

Pearson

Building on the success of On Cooking, 4th edition, the To Go version was inspired by the expressed desire of many users for a text that combines portability with meaningful integration of technology. On Cooking To Go Edition retains all of the instructional in-chapter recipes from the fourth edition; the end-of –chapter recipes have been migrated from the printed book to the Web via i-COOK , a robust web-based recipe management system. This reduced page count provides a more streamlined and portable book. MyCulinaryLab™, our powerful new technology solution, is available for a package option. It does not come packaged with this isbn. MyCulinaryLab™ enables students to study and master content online – in their own time, and at their own pace. Performance is based on summative and formative (study plans, homework, extra practice, pre- and post-tests, etc) assessment in the form of rich media and a personalized study plans tied to specific learning outcomes.

On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals : To Go Edition

Martel, Priscilla

Covers food safety, nutrition, tools, equipment, and cooking techniques, and provides information on various foods and their preparation

On Cooking, Volume 1: Techniques from Expert Chefs (2nd Edition)

Professional Cooking

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