International Cuisine and Food Production Management is a comprehensive textbook specially designed to meet the needs of final year students of hotel management and aspiring chefs. It explores the concepts of international food production and illustrates them using numerous photographs, figures, and tables. The accompanying CD contains numerous recipes.

Accompanied by one CD-ROM in pocket inside back pocket.

Food Production Operations, 3e is a comprehensive text designed for students of degree and diploma courses in hotel management. The book aims to introduce students to the world of professional cookery.

For courses in International Cookery, Continental Cookery, Cuisines of the World, World Cookery. Unique in its breadth, depth, and perspective, this comprehensive text on international cookery covers cuisines from around the world providing an understanding of not only their flavor concepts, but how the cuisines developed and evolved. Each cuisine is explored in terms of its general characteristics as well as issues including the history and effects from invaders and bordering countries; topography, geography, and climate; indigenous foods, culture, and influences from religion and other groups of people; foods and flavorings frequently used; common cooking methods and their origins in the area; and regional variations. Each chapter contains tested recipes representing foods and dishes from all segments of the menu and wine suggestions (provided by Beringer Blass Vineyards) for each first course, soup, and entr�e.

Describes the fundamental principles of food production - both theory and practice. Divided into four parts, the book has been conceptualized and designed to become an indispensable textbook for hotel management students.

This book analyses the interaction between food, self-conceptions and region using three thematic streams: Food and Region, Food and the Imagination, and Alienation and the Handling of Food. It reflects on important questions concerning the impact on our lives of places of food production in an increasingly industrialised and globalised world.

This book provides the first systematic and accessible text for students of hospitality and the culinary arts that directly addresses how more sustainable restaurants and commercial food services can be achieved. Food systems receive growing attention because they link various sustainability dimensions. Restaurants are at the heart of these developments, and their decisions to purchase regional foods, or to prepare menus that are healthier and less environmentally problematic, have great influence on food production processes. This book is systematically designed around understanding the inputs and outputs of the commercial kitchen as well as what happens in the restaurant from the perspective of operators, staff and the consumer. The book considers different management approaches and further looks at the role of restaurants, chefs and staff in the wider community and the positive contributions that commercial kitchens can make to promoting sustainable food ways. Case studies from all over the world illustrate the tools and techniques helping to meet environmental and economic bottom lines. This will be essential reading for all students of hospitality and the culinary arts.