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Exceptionally thorough, this volume offers single-volume coverage of ALL aspects of menu planning. Hands-on and real-world in approach, it features accompanying interactive software with specific examples of costing, mark-ups and menu engineering.
Fundamentals of Menu Planning, Third Edition presents a complete overview of key aspects of menu planning, including designing, writing, costing, marketing, and merchandising a menu. Reflecting the latest menu trends in the restaurant industry, the authors show how research, surveys, and sales analysis are key to menu planning and design. With updated nutrition and menu planning information, an expanded collection of sample menus, new appendices and resources, numerous forms, tables, and worksheets, and more practice problems, this guide is key to the success of the overall foodservice enterprise.
The books in this series from the editors of the Food Service Professional are the best and most comprehensive books for serious food service operators available today. These step-by-step guides on a specific management subject range from finding a great site for your new restaurant to how to train your wait staff and literally everything in between. They are easy and fast -to-read, easy to understand and will take the mystery out of the subject. The information is "boiled down" to the essence. They are filled to the brim with up-to-date and pertinent information. The books cover all the bases, providing clear explanations and helpful, specific information. All titles in the series include the phone numbers and web sites of all companies discussed. What you won't find are wordy explanations, tales of how someone did it better, or a scholarly lecture on the "theory". Every paragraph in each of the books is comprehensive, well researched, engrossing, and just plain fun-to-read, yet are packed with interesting ideas.
The leading guide to the professional kitchen's cold foodstation, now fully revised and updated Garde Manger: The Art and Craft of the Cold Kitchen hasbeen the market's leading textbook for culinary students and a keyreference for professional chefs since its original publication in1999. This new edition improves on the last with the mostup-to-date recipes, plating techniques, and flavor profiles beingused in the field today. New information on topics like artisanalcheeses, contemporary styles of pickles and vinegars, andcontemporary cooking methods has been added to reflect the mostcurrent industry trends. And the fourth edition includes hundredsof all-new photographs by award-winning photographer Ben Fink, aswell as approximately 450 recipes, more than 100 of which areall-new to this edition. Knowledge of garde manger is an essentialpart of every culinary student's training, and many of the world'smost celebrated chefs started in garde manger as apprentices orcooks. The art of garde manger includes a broad base of culinaryskills, from basic cold food preparations to roasting, poaching,simmering, and sautéing meats, fish, poultry, vegetables, andlegumes. This comprehensive guide includes detailed information oncold sauces and soups; salads; sandwiches; cured and smoked foods;sausages; terrines, pâtes, galantines, and roulades; cheese;appetizers and hors d'oeuvre; condiments, crackers, and pickles;and buffet development and presentation.
Winner of the Prestigious IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) Award, The Modern Garde Manger is designed to meet the educational needs of novice culinary students and experienced chefs. Its carefully researched information and fully tested recipes span the broad international spectrum of the modern garde manger station. Five distinct sections covering seventeen chapters of text and recipes focus on the different aspects of the chef s required knowledge and responsibilities. Special features of the text include Chapter Goals; Professional Profiles featuring leading culinary personalities; Review Questions to spark classroom discussion and pique student interest; Activities and Applications that stress the importance of critical thinking skills, relative to the material presented in the chapter; and Key Words in Review. This is the most comprehensive text of its kind available for today s student and professional chef.
CHARCUTERIE--a culinary specialty that originally referred to the creation of pork products such as salami, sausages, and prosciutto--is true food craftsmanship, the art of turning preserved food into items of beauty and taste. Today the term encompasses a vast range of preparations, most of which involve salting, cooking, smoking, and drying. In addition to providing classic recipes for sausages, terrines, and pâtés, Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn expand the definition to include anything preserved or prepared ahead such as Mediterranean olive and vegetable rillettes, duck confit, and pickles and sauerkraut. Ruhlman, coauthor of The French Laundry Cookbook, and Polcyn, an expert charcuterie instructor at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan, present 125 recipes that are both intriguing to professionals and accessible to home cooks, including salted, airdried ham; Maryland crab, scallop, and saffron terrine; Da Bomb breakfast sausage; mortadella and soppressata; and even spicy smoked almonds.
The complete, contemporary guide to preparing sausages, cured andsmoked meats, p�t�s and terrines, and cured and smokedfish of the highest quality Centuries of skill and imagination have earned charcuterie arevered place in the world of gastronomy, and ProfessionalCharcuterie honors that proud tradition. This working manual andtreasury of recipes covers the selection and assembly ofingredients, the most effective use of equipment, and theindispensable basics of food safety. Incorporating a wide varietyof meats, seafood, fowl, and game, its range of over 200 enticing,culinary classroom-tested recipes includes all the classics ofcharcuterie, as well as exceptional contemporary favorites.Step-by-step instructions for smoking and curing are clearlypresented, as well as illustrated procedures for preparing andstuffing sausages. Designed for professionals and culinary students as well as homecooks, Professional Charcuterie allows readers to produce superiorproducts upon the very first effort, and to develop their skills toeven higher levels.
Prestige des Grands Chefs Traditional charcuterie dishes have been gradually disappearing from restaurant menus in France. But as the trends of «cuisine minceur» and «nouvelle cuisine» give way to the return of the satisfying traditional cooking «du terroei » or «of the land », regional specialties including the sausages and pâtés and other traditional charcuterie specialties are being rediscovered. As the French return to their roots, charcuterie dishes made with top quality poultry, fish, meats, agan meats, vegetables and fruits are gaining popularity. Two exceptional authors have compiled a selection of 50 outstanding modern charcuterie dishes. Restaurant chefs will be inspired to include these delicious and often economical specialties on their menus and caterers, purveyors of gourmet food and talented home cooks will find new and exciting items to add to their repertoire. Well illustrated with color photographs, this book is a joy to look at as well as a useful tool for the chef. The recipes are grouped in five categories according to the main type of preparation: New style terrines Specialties, wrapped and poached Charcuterie in pastry («en croûte») Slow-cooked meats for appetizer and main course Sausages and «boudins».Each recipe is presented over four pages with step by step photographs that reinforce the detailed text. This comprehensive volume is an indispensable reference for the recipes and techniques of modern charcuterie.
Feast your eyes. Long awaited by professional chefs, this groundbreaking guide to food presentation will also delight and inspire culinary students and sophisticated home cooks. Acclaimed food writer and culinary producer Christopher Styler describes seven distinctive plating styles, from Minimalist to Naturalist to Dramatic, with several striking examples of every genre. Each plating suggestion is accompanied by clear instructions along with color photos of step-by-step techniques and finished plates. Complete with essays on plating from ten leading chefs and recipes for the dishes featured, this book is a work of art in itself--a must for the kitchen shelf.
