Professional Chef - The Culinary Institute of America’s Official Cooking, Baking, and Recipe eBook app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Inkling Systems, Inc.
First release : 24 Oct 2011
App size: 413.4 Mb
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Learn how to cook, bake, and menu plan like the pros without ever leaving your kitchen table. Known as “the bible for all chefs,” and the official textbook of the famed Culinary Institute of America, The Professional Chef ebook has been built from the ground up as the richest and most all-inclusive food, cooking and baking skills resource and cookbook in your kitchen.
Mastering the skills to cook eggs, fish, poultry, grains, and meats has never been more accessible than with the book used by professional chefs. Whether you want to make pasta, pastries, and salads or learn to make soups, stocks, and base sauces, this book is your indispensable guide to go from a good cook to a great chef.
The Culinary Institute of America has trained the likes of Anthony Bourdain, Grant Achatz, Michael Symon, Anne Burrell, and many more. Now, culinary students and cooking enthusiasts alike can learn from the masters who have taught some of the world’s best and most well-known chefs.
Includes over 100 instructional videos from CIA masters
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► Watch more than 100 embedded videos by CIA instructors demonstrate professional cooking and baking tips and tricks for bringing 850 restaurant-worthy recipes to the dining room table.
Beautiful and interactive learning not possible on paper
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► Zoom in on nearly 750 gorgeous photos of meals, vegetables, ingredients, kitchen tools and finished dishes.
► Play with 175+ interactive enhancements that make many photos both delicious and nutritious—touch a poptip for more info, a recipe, more images, and even web links.
► Tap into the collective wisdom of cooks, amateur and professional, around the world with shared notes, discussions and commenting, right in the book.
Other Inkling ebook features included with this title
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Less Search, More Find
• Search anything in your book
• Write and highlight with ease
• Notes saved in the cloud
• Scan chapter info at a glance
• Link between related ideas
Unfair Advantage
• Quizzes in every chapter
• Diagrams that let you test yourself
• Find other users best notes
• Tap key terms for definitions
Social Learning Network
• Log in via email and Facebook
• Access Google and Wikipedia
• Share your notes and highlights
• Use the notes of friends and professors
Details on book content:
No other cooking book or resource delivers the depth instructions and lesson of The Professional Chef, with in-depth content on:
• Menus and Recipes
• The Basics of Nutrition and Food Science
• Food and Kitchen Safety
• Equipment Identification
• Meat, Poultry, and Game Identification
• Fish and Shellfish Identification
• Fruit, Vegetable, and Fresh Herb Identification
• Dairy and Egg Purchasing and Identification
• Dry Goods Identification
• Mise en Place for Stocks, Sauces, and Soups
• Stocks
• Sauces
• Soups
• Mise en Place for Meats, Poultry, Fish, and Shellfish
• Fabricating Meats, Poultry, and Fish
• Grilling, Broiling, and Roasting
• Sautéing, Pan Frying, and Deep Frying
• Steaming and Submersion Cooking
• Braising and Stewing
• Mise en Place for Vegetables and Fresh Herbs
• Cooking Vegetables, Potatoes, Grains and Legumes, and Pasta and Dumplings
• Cooking Eggs
• Salad Dressings and Salads
• Sandwiches
• Hors d’Oeuvre and Appetizers
• Charcuterie and Garde Manger
• Baking Mise en Place
• Yeast Breads
• Pastry Doughs and Batters
• Custards, Creams, and Mousses
• Fillings, Frostings, and Dessert Sauces
• Plated Desserts
Latest reviews of Professional Chef - The Culinary Institute of America’s Official Cooking, Baking, and Recipe eBook app for iPhone and iPad
I wondered about paying that much, but after downloading it I realized that this is so much better than a lot of books Ive paid that much for! Good job by the writers and developers.
I bought this "book" for my wife and she absolutely loves it! I was really surprised by the quality of the video content, very professional and makes the content come alive!
I had a copy of the text book which has become my reference for all things in the kitchen and I was a first dubious about spending the money on a electronic version, but the app takes the information in the book to a whole new level. One of the frustrating things about the book (if your not a professional chef) is that it is a text book so each chapter builds upon the last. If you pick out a recipe from the middle of the book, you need to bounce back and forth to other pages before you get a complete idea of what involved in the meal. The app works the same way but since it incoprorates hyperlinks the information flow much more smoothel. So if you arent sure how to make a velouté sauce when working through a cream soup recipe, you just tap on the word and all is explained. The videos also add an additional dimension and the ability to add your own notes to a page makes the app indispensable.
The CIA got this right. Im a graduate of the CIA and have to say this is a resource I wish I had while there. AMAZING. great way to search, get quick refresher courses and just have fun!! THIS IS WHAT TEXT BOOKS SHOULD BE! Im hoping they do the pastry book the same way.
Ive only just started to absorb the material but, so far, the breadth and depth of the information seems quite thorough. The text is well written and the intentions of each section are well implemented. The videos are okay but the severe compression reduces the overall impression of quality. Ive also noticed that the videos lag as if they were being streamed from the net but, from what I gather, theyre embedded into the actual book. Even though Im on an iPad2, Im not sure what to make of that. It was extremely apparent in the free chapter provided by inkling but I assumed that it was due to shortcuts made for the free chapter. Apparently not? One other sore point that I would love to see fixed in a future update -- since Im reading this as a proper text book and less as a general reference, I find it decidedly bothersome that there isnt an option for a basic bookmark feature. The book should automatically save the exact page that Im on so that if Im pulled away or the app is closed, I can return to where I left off. If iBooks has it, why not this? Lastly, it would be nice if there was an option for full justification of the text. From a layout point of view, it would be easier on my eyes to see each line of text use the full width instead of being left-justified and leaving jagged right edges (as seen in the above screenshots).