The Chef's Companion

Author: Elizabeth Riely
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118065158
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
The indispensable guide to over 5,000 culinary terms Even the most international chef sometimes needs help with today's wildly diverse cooking terminology. Now, there's an updated and revised edition of Elizabeth Riely's The Chef's Companion, which professional chefs and aspiring cooks everywhere can turn to when they need quick access to concise and reliable definitions, pronunciations, correct spelling, accepted usage, and origins of culinary terms. This invaluable guide covers all the terms that chefs might use with customers and kitchen staff-in areas such as cooking techniques, food preparation, herbs and spices, varieties of food, wine, and equipment for the professional kitchen. Over 900 new terms have been added to this edition to provide expanded coverage of areas such as wine, pastry, and ethnic cuisines. The Chef's Companion: no kitchen is complete without it.

The Chef's Companion

Author: Elizabeth Riely
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 9780471287599
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Any food professional or aspiring chef will quickly build confidence in the use of culinary terms with this indispensable guide to the correct spelling, pronunciation, definition, usage, and origin of over 4,500 terms. The updated Second Edition of The Chefs Companion succinctly covers all the latest terms relating to cooking techniques, food preparations, herbs and spices, varieties and cuts of food, wine terminology, and equipment for the professional kitchen, as well as notable figures in the history of food and gastronomy.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Culinary Arts

Author: Steven Labensky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780130966223
Category : Cookery
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This text is written for courses in Professional Cooking, Food and Beverage Management, Quantity Food Production, Food Preparation, and Introduction to Foods. A dictionary of the culinary arts, the book defines approximately 20,000 terms (including foreign terms)

The Chef's Companion

Author: Elizabeth Riely
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 047139842X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 375

Book Description
Without the clear descriptions on the menu or the descriptions by your server, it might be difficult to answer the simple question, "what would you like today?" The Chef's Companion should sit on the shelf next to important cooking references to help the chef navigate the foreign language that is the culinary arts.

The Pastry Chef's Companion

Author: Glenn Rinsky
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470009551
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
With more than 4,800 terms and definitions from around the world plus ten appendices filled with helpful resources, The Pastry Chef's Companion combines the best features of a dictionary and an encyclopedia. In addition to the current terminology of every component of pastry, baking, and confectionary arts, this book provides important information about the origin and historical background of many of the terms. Moreover, it offers coverage of flavor trends, industry practices, key success factors, a resources list, illustrations, and phonetic pronunciations.

Cooking for Kings

Author: Ian Kelly
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802777317
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
A recipe-enhanced profile of one of history's most prolific culinary writers draws on the subject's memoirs to trace his rise from Paris orphan to international celebrity, a journey during which he traveled throughout Europe and Russia and prepared sumptuous feasts for royal families. Reprint.

The Chef's Répertoire

Author: Gui Alinat
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780826942357
Category : Cooking, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Chef's R�pertoire is the perfect pocket reference for every foodservice and hospitality professional, food writer/blogger, and culinary enthusiast.

Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1

Author: Julia Child
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307958175
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 857

Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The definitive cookbook on French cuisine for American readers: "What a cookbook should be: packed with sumptuous recipes, detailed instructions, and precise line drawings. Some of the instructions look daunting, but as Child herself says in the introduction, 'If you can read, you can cook.'" —Entertainment Weekly “I only wish that I had written it myself.” —James Beard Featuring 524 delicious recipes and over 100 instructive illustrations to guide readers every step of the way, Mastering the Art of French Cooking offers something for everyone, from seasoned experts to beginners who love good food and long to reproduce the savory delights of French cuisine. Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle break down the classic foods of France into a logical sequence of themes and variations rather than presenting an endless and diffuse catalogue of dishes—from historic Gallic masterpieces to the seemingly artless perfection of a dish of spring-green peas. Throughout, the focus is on key recipes that form the backbone of French cookery and lend themselves to an infinite number of elaborations—bound to increase anyone’s culinary repertoire. “Julia has slowly but surely altered our way of thinking about food. She has taken the fear out of the term ‘haute cuisine.’ She has increased gastronomic awareness a thousandfold by stressing the importance of good foundation and technique, and she has elevated our consciousness to the refined pleasures of dining." —Thomas Keller, The French Laundry

The Cook's Essential Kitchen Dictionary

Author: Jacques L. Rolland
Publisher: Robert Rose
ISBN: 9780778804949
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"An exciting blend of food history, etymology, anecdotes, origins and culture. How often have you found yourself in the middle of preparing a recipe when you come across an unfamiliar term? If you are like most people, the answer is probably quite often. Not recognizing a word and its meaning can diminish the pleasure of preparing a dish. Discover thousands of definitions, along with a wealth of historical background for many words, in this completely revised edition. Each entry from the previous edition has been reviewed, vetted and edited to reflect today's culinary landscape. The definitions are listed alphabetically for easy reference, and each includes British and American cooking terms, as well as many foreign language terms. So whether you're looking for an entertaining read or the answer to a specific culinary question, this delightful book offers a unique vantage point from which to expand your knowledge of food and your appreciation of cooking. It will make the adventure of cooking all the more enjoyable and will take you on a delightful journey through the world of food. For anyone who cooks or who simply loves food, this is an outstanding reference source and cookbook supplement."--Publisher's website.

The Oxford Companion to Food

Author: Alan Davidson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191018252
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 1944

Book Description
The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson, first published in 1999, became, almost overnight, an immense success, winning prizes and accolades around the world. Its combination of serious food history, culinary expertise, and entertaining serendipity, with each page offering an infinity of perspectives, was recognized as unique. The study of food and food history is a new discipline, but one that has developed exponentially in the last twenty years. There are now university departments, international societies, learned journals, and a wide-ranging literature exploring the meaning of food in the daily lives of people around the world, and seeking to introduce food and the process of nourishment into our understanding of almost every compartment of human life, whether politics, high culture, street life, agriculture, or life and death issues such as conflict and war. The great quality of this Companion is the way it includes both an exhaustive catalogue of the foods that nourish humankind - whether they be fruit from tropical forests, mosses scraped from adamantine granite in Siberian wastes, or body parts such as eyeballs and testicles - and a richly allusive commentary on the culture of food, whether expressed in literature and cookery books, or as dishes peculiar to a country or community. The new edition has not sought to dim the brilliance of Davidson's prose. Rather, it has updated to keep ahead of a fast-moving area, and has taken the opportunity to alert readers to new avenues in food studies.