Fundamentals of Meal Management
Fundamentals of Meal Management has been revised in its 5th edition to incorporate the influences of contemporary lifestyle and world politics on meal management in restaurants, institutions, and the home. Among the concerns that have come to the fore are food safety and the importance of food for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight while also maximizing the sociability, pleasure, and comfort that good food can bring to our lives. This book has been revised to facilitate mastery of the...
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Fundamentals of Meal Management has been revised in its 5th edition to incorporate the influences of contemporary lifestyle and world politics on meal management in restaurants, institutions, and the home. It fully addresses the challenge in meal management, which is to prepare foods that meet our physical and psychological needs while also helping to achieve and maintain a healthy weight. Focused around increasingly important safety and health concerns about the food supply and nutrition in the United States, it provides an in-depth study of this broad-based management challenge. Updated information in this edition includes: extensive examination of the causes of food-borne illness and ways to help assure food safety, Food Insights to add interesting information about today’s food supply, manners in the cultural milieu, kitchen planning and organization, current dietary recommendations and requirements, and much more.
I. PLANNING MEALS. 1. Defining Menu Parameters.2. Nutrition in Meal Planning.3. Menu Planning.II. FOOD BUYING. 4. Managing Marketing.5. Buying Dairy Products and Substitutes.6. Buying Protein-Rich Foods.7. Buying Fruits and Vegetables.8. Buying Grains and Grain Products.9. Buying Other Foods.III. MANAGEMENT DECISIONS. 10. Food Safety.11. Organizing the Kitchen.12. Time and Energy Management.IV. SERVICE AND HOSPITALITY. 13. Setting the Table.14. Methods of Meal Service.15. Hospitality.16. Special Occasions.17. Manners in the Cultural MilieuAPPENDICES. A. Meat Carving.B. Turkey Carving.C. Nutritive Values of the Edible Parts of Food.
