Pactical Cookery 9th edition continues to provide catering students with the comprehensive information and step-by-step guidelines that they need. The wide range of recipes is attractively presented, with clear instructions, troubleshooting tips, nutritional information, illustrative photographs and useful suggestions for developing original recipe ideas. The text also contains user-friendly coverage of all the basics of practical cookery - recipe balance, basic skills and metholdology, presentation of food, information on healthy eating and basic nutrition, as well as hygienic procdeures for the sotage, preparation, cooking and serving of food.
Also be aware this is a Technical Book and a Major Teaching tool in UK Catering Colleges.
My reading dates are multi varied on this book, I bought in 2009, and have used it regularly since, It also Helps I understand NVQ's/SVQ's as I'm a Scot and a Classically Trained Chef, that used a book similar to this while at college, although a much earlier version.