The Professional Chef by The Culinary Institute of America
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Book Summary Author: The Culinary Institute of America Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2006-08-28 ISBN: 0764557343 Number of pages: 1232 Publisher: Wiley Accessories:
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Book Reviews of the The Professional Chef
Customer Review: Lack of Video and Recipes from the description, great Picture and instructions
Summary: 3 Stars
This book cover from the very basic of cooking which is the ingredients, utensils and herbs. Although they presented vividly, their organization of the ingredients is pretty messy especially in vegetables and meat part (unless for someone who knows ingredients and looks for something new). The recipes was good but lack the essential recipes from the descriptions. For instance, the beef brisket/flank steak can be cook for London broil, but they did not tell anything about it which for me is very annoying. Although it contains a lot of recipes, this book lacks some of the traditional cooking like aglio e olio (although it seems easy, not many people can extract all the garlic flavor and fused it with olive oil), or opera cake which not many people know, but a classic french desserts. It also forgot to cover on how to clean fish properly (like an Asian style); they just presented by cutting the entire head and fillet it.
I give only 3 because 1 star for video - it is better to use video to explain on how to clean like fish/meat/etc, and 1 more star for basic information - as this book becomes a reference to any chef, it would be best to have all the basic nail down so that they can invent other variation recipes from the basics.
Advantage of this book: cover pretty a lot, but not complete basic skills and recipes. many pictures
disadvantage: Too many open space it will not be useful for comments or ideas; it is better for the recipes to be reorganize so that can put more basic recipes with quick instructions like "The best recipes" collection