Professional Cooking Books


The Professional Caterer Series: Croustades-Quenelles-Souffles-Beignets-Individual Hot Dishes-Mixed Salads-Fish in Aspic-Lobsters-Poultry in AspicThe Professional Caterer Series: Croustades-Quenelles-Souffles-Beignets-Individual Hot Dishes-Mixed Salads-Fish in Aspic-Lobsters-Poultry in Aspic
Best Price: $120.00
In this volume, Denis Ruffel gives a new twist to many classics of the French repertory.
Professional Baking, Fifth Edition and Method Cards and Rinsky/Pastry Chef's Companion SETProfessional Baking, Fifth Edition and Method Cards and Rinsky/Pastry Chef's Companion SET
Best Price: $120.00
Math for the Professional Kitchen (Culinary Institute of America)Math for the Professional Kitchen (Culinary Institute of America)
Best Price: $21.99
Essential math concepts for professional chefs and culinary students Ideal for students and...
Tasting Success: Your Guide to Becoming a Professional ChefTasting Success: Your Guide to Becoming a Professional Chef
Best Price: $30.00
This text identifies the challenges that individuals would face when starting down the road to...
Professional Cooking 7th Edition College Version w/CD-ROM with Visual Food Lovers Guide SetProfessional Cooking 7th Edition College Version w/CD-ROM with Visual Food Lovers Guide Set
Best Price: $117.50


The Modern Cafe / The Visual Food Lover's GuideThe Modern Cafe / The Visual Food Lover's Guide
Best Price: $32.56
Professional Garde Manger with Study Guide and Visual Food Lovers Guide SetProfessional Garde Manger with Study Guide and Visual Food Lovers Guide Set
Best Price: $93.99
Professional Cooking for Canadian ChefsProfessional Cooking for Canadian Chefs
The Cookbook is a book for experts in the making. This is actually the textbook I am using in...
Food Preparation for the ProfessionalFood Preparation for the Professional
Best Price: $86.25
Completely revised and updated the definitive text on food preparation for the foodservice...
Professional Chef's Book of BuffetsProfessional Chef's Book of Buffets
Best Price: $4.50


Cafe des Artistes: An Insider's Look at the Famed Restaurant and Its Cuisine (Great Restaurants of the World)Cafe des Artistes: An Insider's Look at the Famed Restaurant and Its Cuisine (Great Restaurants of the World)
Best Price: $95.98
Cafe Des Artistes not only offers extraordinary culinary delights, but also houses a...
Quantity Food Preparation: Standardization Recipes and Controlling IngredientsQuantity Food Preparation: Standardization Recipes and Controlling IngredientsPrize Recipes from Great Restaurants: The Western StatesPrize Recipes from Great Restaurants: The Western States
Best Price: $8.50
This rare and exciting cookbook offers the home chef exactly same recipes as those used in some...
The Stinking Cookbook: From the Stinking Rose, a Garlic RestaurantThe Stinking Cookbook: From the Stinking Rose, a Garlic Restaurant
Best Price: $5.55
This recipe book is published by The Stinking Rose Restaurant, a famous garlic restaurant in San...
Do It for Less! Parties: Tricks of the Trade from Professional Caterers' KitchensDo It for Less! Parties: Tricks of the Trade from Professional Caterers' Kitchens
Best Price: $6.98
by Judy Bart Kancigor, author of Cooking Jewish: 532 Great Recipes from the Rabinowitz Family ...

Food FAQs: Substitutions, Yields & EquivalentsFood FAQs: Substitutions, Yields & Equivalents
Best Price: $11.93
I have had the wonderful opportunity to review the book, 'Food FAQs: Substitutions, Yields...
Cooking among friends: Meal planning and preparation delightfully simplifiedCooking among friends: Meal planning and preparation delightfully simplified
Best Price: $162.96
Bottom Line: This book is for freezer meals in quantity (6, 12, 18 meals). This is NOT...
La Fenice Cookbook: Luigi's PassionLa Fenice Cookbook: Luigi's Passion
Best Price: $4.48
Gorgeously illustrated by Luigi's own paintings, this tantalizing collection features 114...
In The Heat Of The KitchenIn The Heat Of The Kitchen
Best Price: $12.08
`In the Heat of the Kitchen' by London chef Gordon Ramsay, the host of a Fox TV culinary...
The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of AmericaThe Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America
Best Price: $35.92
I once heard someone describe "mastery" like this: "When you're a beginner...

A Day in the Life of a Chef (Kids' Career Library)A Day in the Life of a Chef (Kids' Career Library)
Best Price: $17.99
Follows the owner and chef at a restaurant as she goes about all the tasks that are necessary to...
Fired Up: More Adventures & Recipes from Hudson's on the BendFired Up: More Adventures & Recipes from Hudson's on the Bend
Best Price: $24.98
This is unique cookbook. Not only its unique recipe collection but its illustrations as well. ...
The Profitable ChefThe Profitable Chef
Best Price: $25.72
Why do you need Profitable Chef Systems in the Kitchen? Establishing a restaurant, for many is...
Signature Tastes of BoiseSignature Tastes of Boise
Best Price: $17.71
I had bought my wife "Signature Tastes of Bellingham" last year for Christmas. Not...
Professional Cooking 7th Edition College Version with Tasting Success SetProfessional Cooking 7th Edition College Version with Tasting Success Set
Best Price: $126.25

Mega Cooking: A Revolutionary New Plan for Quantity CookingMega Cooking: A Revolutionary New Plan for Quantity Cooking
Best Price: $16.99
Jill Bond does an extraordinary job in this book of explaining exactly how to Mega-Cook. I have...
The Big Platter Cookbook: Cooking and Entertaining Family StyleThe Big Platter Cookbook: Cooking and Entertaining Family Style
Best Price: $14.99
At last! A cookbook that guides you on how to feed a small army with style, and still have...
The Culinary ProfessionalThe Culinary Professional
Best Price: $28.96
The Culinary Professional provides students with a comprehensive explanation of culinary...
Exploring Professional CookingExploring Professional Cooking
Best Price: $17.79
Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Glencoe McGraw-Hill; 3 Sub edition (March 1988) Language:...
Patisserie: An Encyclopedia of Cakes, Pastries, Cookies, Biscuits, Chocolate, Confectionery & DessertsPatisserie: An Encyclopedia of Cakes, Pastries, Cookies, Biscuits, Chocolate, Confectionery & Desserts
Best Price: $24.54
This is supposed to be a comprehensive encyclopedia of pastry recipes and related information. ...

Beaten, Seared, and Sauced: On Becoming a Chef at the Culinary Institute of AmericaBeaten, Seared, and Sauced: On Becoming a Chef at the Culinary Institute of America
Best Price: $14.28
Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this? ) This...
Practical CookeryPractical Cookery
Over the last forty years Practical Cookery has established itself as the key textbook for all...
Ceserani and Kinton's the Theory of CateringCeserani and Kinton's the Theory of Catering
Best Price: $38.80
Ceserani and Kinton's The Theory of Catering is a core text for every hospitality and...
Specs: The Comprehensive Foodservice Purchasing and Specification ManualSpecs: The Comprehensive Foodservice Purchasing and Specification Manual
Best Price: $7.35
A ready resource of the standards by which foods are measured, purchased, and inspected SPECS:...
Restaurant Reality: A Manager's GuideRestaurant Reality: A Manager's Guide
Restaurant Reality is one man's (later one husband and wife's) journey through all...

Classical Cooking the Modern WayClassical Cooking the Modern Way
Best Price: $100.00
I have both the first edition (1979) and the second edition (1989)and enjoy both. Which is...
The Professional Charcuterie Series: Pates, Terrines and Ballotines Made With Poultry, Veal, Pork and Liver Andouilles and Andouillettes-Foie GrasThe Professional Charcuterie Series: Pates, Terrines and Ballotines Made With Poultry, Veal, Pork and Liver Andouilles and Andouillettes-Foie Gras
Best Price: $179.95
This book offers a rare peak at the art and technique of french charcuterie. In it you will...
So You Want to Be a Chef: Your Guide to Culinary Careers (Wiley Desktop Editions)So You Want to Be a Chef: Your Guide to Culinary Careers (Wiley Desktop Editions)
Best Price: $10.60
Understand what it takes to be a chef by reading the comprehensive information in So You Want...
Dimensions of the Hospitality Industry: An Introduction, 3rd EditionDimensions of the Hospitality Industry: An Introduction, 3rd Edition
Best Price: $17.95
This book is not interesting. And I recommend to the authors, to rewrite the book to reflect the...
The Professional ChefThe Professional Chef
Best Price: $47.99
I am not a professional chef, but I sure enjoy well made food. I have a curiosity about how...

Club Cuisine: Cooking with a Master ChefClub Cuisine: Cooking with a Master Chef
Best Price: $27.83
No food stylist here, real food cooked and shown by a chef who by the photos and the opening of...
Professional BakingProfessional Baking
Best Price: $59.99
Gisslen's 6th edition of Professional Baking  continues to educate hundreds of...
Dessert University: More Than 300 Spectacular Recipes and Essential Lessons from White House Pastry Chef Roland MesnierDessert University: More Than 300 Spectacular Recipes and Essential Lessons from White House Pastry Chef Roland Mesnier
Best Price: $16.31
This book appears to have been designed to provide value and economy for a wide audience and the...
The Larder Chef, Fourth Edition: Food Preparation and PresentationThe Larder Chef, Fourth Edition: Food Preparation and Presentation
Best Price: $42.95
The Larder Chef reflects the changing attitude to food and its preparation in recent years....
Chuck Wagon CookbookChuck Wagon Cookbook
Best Price: $7.94

Supervision and Management of Quantity Food Preparation: Principles and ProceduresSupervision and Management of Quantity Food Preparation: Principles and Procedures
Best Price: $19.48
Supervision and Management of Quantity Food Preparation: Principles and ProceduresSupervision and Management of Quantity Food Preparation: Principles and Procedures
Best Price: $39.00
How Do I Become A...? - ChefHow Do I Become A...? - Chef
Best Price: $2.89
Peer over the shoulders of professional chefs and students as they perfect kitchen skills and...
Secrets of the Sommeliers: How to Think and Drink Like the World's Top Wine ProfessionalsSecrets of the Sommeliers: How to Think and Drink Like the World's Top Wine Professionals
Best Price: $19.90
Let's start with the worst part of this book: the title. I had to hold my nose and buy it...
Mastering Knife Skills: The Essential Guide to the Most Important Tools in Your Kitchen (with DVD)Mastering Knife Skills: The Essential Guide to the Most Important Tools in Your Kitchen (with DVD)
Best Price: $32.00
I highly recommend this book. I also purchased "Japanese Kitchen Knives: Essential...

Hungry for Peace: How You Can Help End Poverty and War with Food Not BombsHungry for Peace: How You Can Help End Poverty and War with Food Not Bombs
Best Price: $12.89
The de facto how-to manual of the international Food Not Bombs movement, which provides free...
Kids' Party BookKids' Party BookTecnicas Elementales de Cocina (Hosteleria y Turismo) (Spanish Edition)Tecnicas Elementales de Cocina (Hosteleria y Turismo) (Spanish Edition)
Best Price: $58.91
Casseroles (Cordon Bleu Home Collection)Casseroles (Cordon Bleu Home Collection)
Best Price: $39.99
I use this book all the time. The cassoulet recipe itself is worth paying for. The reason I...
Club Cuisine: Cooking with a Master ChefClub Cuisine: Cooking with a Master Chef
I love the book. I refer to it often. Nice ideas for my catering and restaurant.

The Complete Illustrated Guide to Cutting Up a ChickenThe Complete Illustrated Guide to Cutting Up a Chicken
Never stare at a raw chicken again and wonder what the heck do you do with the thing. Karen...
In The Heat Of The KitchenIn The Heat Of The Kitchen
Best Price: $12.08
`In the Heat of the Kitchen' by London chef Gordon Ramsay, the host of a Fox TV culinary...
The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of AmericaThe Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America
Best Price: $35.92
I once heard someone describe "mastery" like this: "When you're a beginner...
A Day in the Life of a Chef (Kids' Career Library)A Day in the Life of a Chef (Kids' Career Library)
Best Price: $17.99
Follows the owner and chef at a restaurant as she goes about all the tasks that are necessary to...
Fired Up: More Adventures & Recipes from Hudson's on the BendFired Up: More Adventures & Recipes from Hudson's on the Bend
Best Price: $24.98
This is unique cookbook. Not only its unique recipe collection but its illustrations as well. ...

The Profitable ChefThe Profitable Chef
Best Price: $25.72
Why do you need Profitable Chef Systems in the Kitchen? Establishing a restaurant, for many is...
Signature Tastes of BoiseSignature Tastes of Boise
Best Price: $17.71
I had bought my wife "Signature Tastes of Bellingham" last year for Christmas. Not...
Professional Cooking 7th Edition College Version with Tasting Success SetProfessional Cooking 7th Edition College Version with Tasting Success Set
Best Price: $126.25
Mega Cooking: A Revolutionary New Plan for Quantity CookingMega Cooking: A Revolutionary New Plan for Quantity Cooking
Best Price: $16.99
Jill Bond does an extraordinary job in this book of explaining exactly how to Mega-Cook. I have...
The Big Platter Cookbook: Cooking and Entertaining Family StyleThe Big Platter Cookbook: Cooking and Entertaining Family Style
Best Price: $14.99
At last! A cookbook that guides you on how to feed a small army with style, and still have...

The Culinary ProfessionalThe Culinary Professional
Best Price: $28.96
The Culinary Professional provides students with a comprehensive explanation of culinary...
Professional Cooking 7th Edition College Version with Management by Menu 4th Edition and Culinary Math 3rd Edition SetProfessional Cooking 7th Edition College Version with Management by Menu 4th Edition and Culinary Math 3rd Edition Set
Best Price: $226.25
The Professional Garde Manger: A Guide to the Art of the BuffetThe Professional Garde Manger: A Guide to the Art of the Buffet
Best Price: $16.60
Finally a book that tries to educate American cooks about the fabulous art of french garde...
Professiona Cooking 4th Edition College Kitchen Essentials and Remarkable Service SetProfessiona Cooking 4th Edition College Kitchen Essentials and Remarkable Service SetIce Cream and Frozen Desserts: A Commercial Guide to Production and MarketingIce Cream and Frozen Desserts: A Commercial Guide to Production and Marketing
Best Price: $70.00
From idea to execution, this book is jam packed with hundreds of pages of useful information. ...

The Professional Chef ® (Study Guide, 7th Edition)The Professional Chef ® (Study Guide, 7th Edition)
Best Price: $55.00
This is what it claims, a study guide companion to the CIA's Professional Chef 7th Edition,...
Professional Cooking (includes College Text and NRAEF Workbook w/Exam)Professional Cooking (includes College Text and NRAEF Workbook w/Exam)
Best Price: $125.00
One word - incredible. I've always loved cooking, and have always been a capable cook in the...
The New Professional Chef (TM)The New Professional Chef (TM)
Best Price: $47.96
My mother wanted me to learn how to cook. I had no interest, and often gave her the slip. Why...
Cooking Essentials for the New Professional ChefCooking Essentials for the New Professional Chef
Best Price: $92.00
This book is required for the Culinary school that I attend and I have found it extremely...
Essentials of Professional Cooking, Student WorkbookEssentials of Professional Cooking, Student Workbook
Best Price: $27.00
Managers of restaurants and other foodservice operations need to know how to cook?but do not...

The Professional Pastry Chef: Fundamentals of Baking and Pastry, 4th EditionThe Professional Pastry Chef: Fundamentals of Baking and Pastry, 4th Edition
Best Price: $41.08
This is cookbook has my highest recommendation. The author has garnered a legendary reputation...
Culinary Careers: How to Get Your Dream Job in Food with Advice from Top Culinary ProfessionalsCulinary Careers: How to Get Your Dream Job in Food with Advice from Top Culinary Professionals
Turn a passion for food into the job of a lifetime with the insider advice in Culinary Careers...
How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, 6th: *Become the top caterer in your area *Organize menus for parties, corporate events, and weddings *Market ... taxes with eas (Home-Based Business Series)How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, 6th: *Become the top caterer in your area *Organize menus for parties, corporate events, and weddings *Market ... taxes with eas (Home-Based Business Series)
Those passionate about parties or cooking can now realize their dream of working from home at...
How To Start Up A Catering BusinessHow To Start Up A Catering Business
Starting and Managing Your Catering Business
Cooking for Two: 120 Recipes for Every Day and Those Special NightsCooking for Two: 120 Recipes for Every Day and Those Special Nights
Tea for two. That's what it's all about, right? So how come every recipe you pick up...

101 Recipes for Preparing Food In Bulk (Back to Basics Cooking)101 Recipes for Preparing Food In Bulk (Back to Basics Cooking)
The price of food is rising in a drastic way. In the 1970s, shoppers paid around 98 cents for a...
Freezer Cookbook: Recipes to Save Time and Money in the KitchenFreezer Cookbook: Recipes to Save Time and Money in the Kitchen
Who wouldn't want to save time and money in the kitchen? This collection of recipes plus...
Di Pizza e Pizzerie, Capitolo 5 - LA LIEVITAZIONE (Italian Edition)Di Pizza e Pizzerie, Capitolo 5 - LA LIEVITAZIONE (Italian Edition)
Come ottenere un impasto professionale per una pizza di qualità: tutto quello che dovreste...
Barefoot Contessa Parties! Ideas and Recipes for Easy Parties That Are Really FunBarefoot Contessa Parties! Ideas and Recipes for Easy Parties That Are Really Fun
Best Price: $17.94
Have you ever noticed that when you go to a party where everyone is hanging out in the kitchen,...
Quantity Food Management: Principles and ApplicationsQuantity Food Management: Principles and Applications
Best Price: $17.50

Food Service Skills:  Quantity Food Techniques (Food Service Skills Series)Food Service Skills: Quantity Food Techniques (Food Service Skills Series)
Best Price: $4.73
The Professional Chef's Art of Garde MangerThe Professional Chef's Art of Garde Manger
Best Price: $27.00
This Culinary Institute publication is a classic for professionals, serious hobbyists and chef...
The Chef's  Companion: A Concise Dictionary of Culinary Terms, 2nd EditionThe Chef's Companion: A Concise Dictionary of Culinary Terms, 2nd Edition
Best Price: $328.60
Or what about how to pronounce the wine "Gewürztraminer"? Or my personal...
Large Quantity Recipes, Fourth EditionLarge Quantity Recipes, Fourth Edition
Best Price: $70.96
Yes, this is the one! If you're faced with having to cook for a crowd and have little or no...
Cost-Effective Recipes for 10 to 100Cost-Effective Recipes for 10 to 100
Other Van Nostrand Reinhold Titles of Related Interest Quantity Food Production, Planning, and...

The Professional Chef's Techniques of Healthy Cooking, Second EditionThe Professional Chef's Techniques of Healthy Cooking, Second Edition
Best Price: $13.04
To put this review into perspective for you, it is written by a serious student of cooking that...
Professional Baking, Trade VersionProfessional Baking, Trade Version
Best Price: $22.95
Book written for the professional baker which is adaptable to the home baker. Everything is...
Buffets: A Guide for ProfessionalsBuffets: A Guide for Professionals
Best Price: $16.95
An illustrated guide offering an international array of creative recipes, preparation techniques...
The Chef's Art: Secrets of Four-Star Cooking at HomeThe Chef's Art: Secrets of Four-Star Cooking at Home
Best Price: $4.46
`The Chef's Art' by Wayne Gisslen is a textbook on modern French technique, as...
La Varenne PratiqueLa Varenne Pratique
Best Price: $247.30
I borrowed this book from my public library to see how accurate the rave reviews were. My only...
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