Understanding Food: Principles and Preparation | 
 enlarge | Author: Amy Christine Brown
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $164.95
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 213497
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3
Pages: 640
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.6
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 049510745X
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9780495107453
ASIN: 049510745X
Publication Date: April 3, 2007
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Product Description
UNDERSTANDING FOOD, Third Edition is your introductory guide to learning about foods, food preparation, food service, and food science. This text is a launch to prepare you for a variety of careers in the food industry. Highly researched and comprehensive in coverage, UNDERSTANDING FOOD thoroughly explores the science of food through core material on food selection and evaluation, food safety and food chemistry. The many aspects of food service are covered including meal planning, basic food preparation, equipment, food preservation and government regulations. The final sections of the text supply food preparation, classification, composition, selection, purchasing and food storage information for a range of traditional food items. A rich illustration and photo program and unique pedagogical features help to make the information easily understandable and interesting and something worth holding on to!
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 Excellent and Informative Book July 8, 2007
Heidi Muller (Douglas, Wyoming)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The second edition of this book was one of my college texts in 2004. While I didn't find the accompanying lab. manual as helpful, the actual text is great. Brown describes food science in simple language, explaining the reasons behind why cakes crash, why chemical elements in foods react as they do, why high altitude cooking rules differ, ingredient substitutions, etc., but also provides more in-depth chemical and physical explanations as well. It is really fascinating to read through just for fun. If you enjoy experimenting with recipes as I do, you will really appreciate Brown's guidelines. I refer to my copy a lot; her charts and guidelines are incredibly useful.
 I have not recieved book!! September 29, 2005
K. L. Fleming (Florida)
0 out of 17 found this review helpful
I have not recieved the book......please someone contact me NOW, this is the 2nd purchase I have made and not recieved my book!
Very Upset!!! Please help me!
Nutrition/Dietetic STUDENTS: Do Not Resell This Book. September 20, 2002
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
All,
I have taken the course that calls for this book. The course..., but this is a very good book. If you're majoring in nutrition/dietetics, do not get rid of this book. It is invaluable.
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