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The Professional Chef
by The Culinary Institute of America
from Wiley

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• A New Standard
  Cookbooks are a dime a dozen. There are plenty of books out there that are filled with their fair share of mouth-watering recipes. What is rare is a book that tackles cooking from a conceptual and technical angle. Books like The Joy of Cooking or How to Cook Everything try to go beyond the typical cookbook and try to be kitchen manuals. But what those books are is cookbooks first, and books about how to cook second. The Professional Chef is culinary textbook akin to what you'd expect from an academic text... more info

• No better one!
  Excellent resource for anyone interested in cooking. Techniques are clear, perfectly explained and illustrated.

• All you need to know about proper cooking methods.
  This book was my first text book in culinary school. It is a very informative and an easy guide for anybody that interested in professional and non-professional cooking. I often find myself going back to this book as a reference on certain recipes, cooking method, and information. With the exception of baking, you should use this book as a guide in cooking because professional cooks don't usually measure everything to the "T". I find the recipes in this book are quite accurate and quite happy with the... more info

• A must read!
  I bought the book to learn more about culinary arts and after beginning the book I couldn't put it down! I love food and this book explains the basics of how to cook; get different flavors and preparing foods correctly. Also offers extensive origins of what foods came from where! Great reference!
  

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