Product Review

Modern food service is evolving rapidly and Professional Cooking continues to evolve with it. In addition to instruction on the fundamental skills, trustworthy and fully tested recipes have made this book the must-have resource for all serious students and professionals.Gisslen's Professional Cooking, Eight Edition provides a clear approach to explaining procedures and techniques, and then reinforces the learning through recipes. Cooking methods have always been the emphasis of Professional Cooking, and the new organization of the text brings the basic procedures into a more prominent position, making it easier for instructors to teach these fundamentals. Methods are supported by an understanding of the principles of food science, which receives additional attention in this Eighth Edition. In keeping with this important trend, the revision of Professional Cooking includes expanded coverage of developments in sous vide cooking and molecular gastronomy.