The Professional Chef

by The Culinary Institute of America

• ISBN13: 9780470421352
• ISBN10: 0470421355
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781118558638
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781119490951
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-13
• Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

The Professional Chef is among the best-selling titles in Wiley's cooking program and represents the cornerstone book in our publishing partnership with the CIA. This is a multi-million-dollar project with high visibility, high impact, and broad opportunities. Once again, we will completely reorganize this book to reflect the way that people cook in the kitchen today, with the best of foods and flavors from around the world.#xA0; The book reviews ingredients, equipment, and skills of the professional chef. It then explores the techniques for the full range of food items: vegetables, potatoes, grains, legumes, pasta, meats, fish and seafood, poultry, eggs, fruits, soups, sauces, quickbreads and cakes, yeast breads, doughs and crusts, cookies, custards, creams and frozen desserts, and chocolates and confections. With a good understanding of techniques, the reader will then learn plating techniques for salads, sandwiches, hors d' oeuvres, appetizers, entrees, and desserts. In this new edition,#xA0;information on global cuisines will be#xA0;intergrated throughout the chapters and recipes, to reflect the increasing globalization of cooking. The revision will also include an all-new chapter on Plated Desserts, including information on composing successful desserts and planning a restaurant dessert menu, as well as recipes for impressive multi-component plated desserts, and will cover topics of growing importance such as sous vide cooking, seasonality, and sustainability.#xA0;The new edition features a new user-friendly design and structure, guiding readers through the basic principles behind each technique at a glance, and then providing more in-depth information along with step-by-step photography. Complete with hundreds of recipes and four-color photographs throughout, this is the essential reference for any aspiring chef, culinary student, or cooking enthusiast. #xA0;

Author Biography

Founded in 1946, The Culinary Institute of America is anindependent, not-for-profit college offering bachelor's andassociate degrees in culinary arts and baking and pastry arts, aswell as certificate programs in culinary arts and wine and beveragestudies. A network of more than 45,000 alumni has helped the CIAearn its reputation as the world's premier culinary college. The CIA, which also offers courses for professionals and foodenthusiasts, as well as consulting services for the foodservice andhospitality industry, has campuses in Hyde Park, New York; St. Helena, California; San Antonio, Texas; and Singapore.

Table of Contents

Master Recipe List viii

Acknowledgments xvi

Introduction xviii

PART ONE The Culinary Professional

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE PROFESSION 3

Chapter 2 MENUS AND RECIPES 13

Chapter 3 THE BASICS OF NUTRITION AND FOOD SCIENCE 23

Chapter 4 FOOD AND KITCHEN SAFETY 31

PART TWO Tools and Ingredients in the Professional Kitchen

Chapter 5 EQUIPMENT IDENTIFICATION 43

Chapter 6 MEAT, POULTRY, AND GAME IDENTIFICATION 69

Chapter 7 FISH AND SHELLFISH IDENTIFICATION 99

Chapter 8 FRUIT, VEGETABLE, AND FRESH HERB IDENTIFICATION 127

Chapter 9 DAIRY AND EGG PURCHASING AND IDENTIFICATION 181

Chapter 10 DRY GOODS IDENTIFICATION 199

PART THREE Stocks, Sauces, and Soups

Chapter 11 MISE EN PLACE FOR STOCKS, SAUCES, AND SOUPS 239

Chapter 12 STOCKS 253

Chapter 13 SAUCES 267

Chapter 14 SOUPS 301

PART FOUR Meats, Poultry, Fish, and Shellfish

Chapter 15 MISE EN PLACE FOR MEATS, POULTRY, FISH, AND SHELLFISH 361

Chapter 16 FABRICATING MEATS, POULTRY, AND FISH 375

Chapter 17 GRILLING, BROILING, AND ROASTING 423

Chapter 18 SAUTÉING, PAN FRYING, AND DEEP FRYING 487

Chapter 19 STEAMING AND SUBMERSION COOKING 531

Chapter 20 BRAISING AND STEWING 571

PART FIVE Vegetables, Potatoes, Grains and Legumes, and Pasta and Dumplings

Cchapter 21 MISE EN PLACE FOR VEGETABLES AND FRESH HERBS 617

Cchapter 22 COOKING VEGETABLES 647

Cchapter 23 COOKING POTATOES 713

Cchapter 24 COOKING GRAINS AND LEGUMES 751

Cchapter 25 COOKING PASTA AND DUMPLINGS 807

PART SIX Breakfast and Ggarde Mmanger

Chapter 26 COOKING EGGS 847

Chapter 27 SALAD DRESSINGS AND SALADS 879

Chapter 28 SANDWICHES 931

Chapter 29 HORS D'OEUVRE AND APPETIZERS 945

Chapter 30 CHARCUTERIE AND GARDE MANGER 985

PART SEVEN Baking and Pastry

Chapter 31 BAKING MISE EN PLACE 1015

Chapter 32 YEAST BREADS 1025

Chapter 33 PASTRY DOUGHS AND BATTERS 1047

Chapter 34 CUSTARDS, CREAMS, AND MOUSSES 1091

Chapter 35 FILLINGS, FROSTINGS, AND DESSERT SAUCES 1107

Chapter 36 PLATED DESSERTS 1131

Appendix 1161

Glossary 1167

Readings and Resources 1185

Recipe Index 1191

Subject Index 1202