New Professional Chef (Academic ed) - Hardcover

Culinary Institute Of America

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0442008074 ISBN 13: 9780442008079

Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991

Synopsis

Thoroughly revised encyclopedic classic used by professionals for decades. The definitive reference is easier to use and is packed with the most up to date information with 1000 reference recipes conveniently located in one section.

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Review

Produced by the Culinary Institute of America as a textbook for chefs-to-be, The New Professional Chef, Sixth Edition, is a book for all who love to cook, as well as students of the craft. It's a cooking school between covers, a teaching and reference work of extraordinary breadth.

In the first two of four parts, arranged in a progressive, logical sequence, the book provides a brief historical overview of the chef's role and discusses matters of interest to all cooks: the identification and purchasing of ingredients, nutrition, food safety, and sanitation, among other matters. The third part explores the techniques that underlie all cooking, from mise en place (readying ingredients), through sauces and soups and the dry- and moist-heat cooking methods, to charcuterie, baking, and pastry. This section, illustrated as elsewhere in the book by step-by-step color photos, line drawings, tables, and charts, is an unendingly informative book in itself. The book concludes with the recipes, arranged as a professional would want them, in chapters devoted to food categories such as sauces and entrees; breakfast and pasta dishes; and breads, cakes and pastries, among others. The hundreds of recipes (500 new to this edition) are designed for 10 or more servings; though reducible, their outstanding usefulness lies in revealing dish anatomy--the way recipes work. Updated with a 50-page chapter on international fare, and containing cooking trucs throughout, material on dietary substitutions, historical and anecdotal information, and serving suggestions, The New Professional Chef is an A to Z resource no culinary library should lack. --Arthur Boehm

From Library Journal

The last edition of this text appeared in 1974, and much has happened in the culinary world since then. Although it is written for the professional, nonprofessionals should find parts of it useful as well. Sections on nutrition, sanitation, and equipment are followed by identification guides, information on fabrication (basic techniques), basic preparations, and--the bulk of the book--cooking methods and recipes. The close to 1000 color photographs are invaluable, whether depicting an ingredient, a step in a difficult technique, or a stage in cooking a specific dish. The 700 recipes represent a wide range of cuisines, old and new, and most are geared to reasonable (rather than institutional size) yields, but nonprofessionals will be more likely to consult this as a reference work than as a cookbook. For most reference collections.
- Judith C. Sutton, Sutton's Place Cuisine, New York
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0442008074
• ISBN 13: 9780442008079
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 894