Product Description: Learn how to cook and think like a chef from the best of the best—the experts at The Culinary Institute of America Aspiring chefs turn to The Culinary Institute of America for top-tier training—and now younger cooks can too. Coauthored by chef-instructor (and parent) Mark Ainsworth, this book is for kids ages ten to fourteen who love to cook or who want to learn how, from the perspective of the nation’s best culinary college...read more

A comprehensive kitchen reference combines baking and pastry basics with a collection of more than 350 professional recipes, providing coverage of everything including the ingredients, equipment, and preparation techniques needed for a wide range of breads and desserts.

Product Description: Teaching a true commitment to highest-quality service as the most important component of executing successful banquets The catering and events market is expanding rapidly, making superior service an absolute necessity for distinction and successful branding in the event planning industry...read more

Product Description: The ultimate resource for pasta lovers In this irresistible collection of reliable recipes, you'll find a huge variety of pasta dishes from real born-and-bred Italian chefs. Pasta covers the basics and beyond with master recipes for making your own fresh egg pasta by hand or machine, as well as reliable guidance on getting the most out of store-bought fresh and dried pastas...read more

Product Description: Chewy, crispy, rich, and crunchy—who doesn't want a cookie right this minute? In the tradition of Chocolates and Confections at Home with The Culinary Institute of America comes Cookies at Home with The Culinary Institute of America, featuring chewy, crispy, rich, and crunchy cookies and offering information about basic cookie-making techniques, equipment, and ingredients...read more

"Named one of the five favorite culinary books of this decade by Food Arts magazine, The Professional Chef is the classic kitchen reference that many of America's top chefs have used to understand basic skills and standards for quality as well as developa sense of how cooking works. Now, the ninth edition features an all-new, user-friendly design that guides readers through each cooking technique, starting with a basic formula, outlining the method at-a-glance, offering expert tips, covering each methodwith beautiful step-by-step photography, and finishing with recipes that use the basic techniques. The new edition also offers a global perspective and includes essential information on nutrition, food and kitchen safety, equipment, and product identification. Basic recipe formulas illustrate fundamental techniques and guide chefs clearly through every step, from mise en place to finished dishes. Includes an entirely new chapter on plated desserts and new coverage of topics that range from sous vide cooking to barbecuing to seasonality Highlights quick reference pages for each major cooking technique or preparation, guiding you with at-a-glance information answering basic questions and giving new insights with expert tips Features nearly 900 recipes and more than 800 gorgeous full-color photographs Covering the full range of modern techniques and classic and contemporary recipes, The Professional Chef, Ninth Edition is the essential reference for every serious cook"--

Product Description: The KITCHENPRO SERIES: GUIDE TO PURCHASING, 1st edition is the sixth text in the series. By combining real-life situations in food industry purchasing and adding in candid explanations of situations that have been encountered through many years in the food industry, Chef Thomas Schneller along with Brad Matthews have written a text specific to procurement in the food industry...read more

Product Description: Kitchen Pro Series: Guide to Cheeses Identification, Classification, and Utilization is the definitive guide to purchasing and utilizing cheese for professional chefs, foodservice personnel, culinarians, and food enthusiasts. Part of the CIA's new Kitchen Pro Series focusing on kitchen preparation skills, this user-friendly, full-color resource discusses the basic history of cheese, its manufacture, and its incorporation into different cuisines across the dining spectrum...read more

Provides a basic overview of the history of garde manger, includes explanations of basic methods of preparation techniques, and includes more than four hundred recipes

An illustrated volume of 150 vegetable recipes features a wide variety of options designed to help home cooks to incorporate healthier choices into an overall diet, in a collection that features such options as cold carrot bisque, stuffed grape leaves, and zucchini pancakes.

Describes The Culinary Institute of America's five-day 'Boot Camp' course that teaches non-professional home cooks how to prepare food like a professional baker, revealing the tips, tricks, cooking skills and techniques, and recipes that participants learn, including lessons in rubbed dough, custard, puff pastry, mousse, and more.

A volume of approximately 150 recipes provides for a variety of occasions and features step-by-step, illustrated instructions, in a resource that includes such options as Beef Stew with Onions and Cheese, Osso Buco Milanese, and Moroccan Swordfish Tangine with Olives and Saffron.