Foskett David - Practical Cookery for the Level 2 Professional Cookery Diploma

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ISBN: 978 1 471 83961 0
eISBN: 978 1 471 83962 7

This edition published 2015.

Copyright 2015 David Foskett, Neil Rippington, Patricia Paskins and Steve Thorpe

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Im delighted to be asked to write this foreword to Practical Cookery.

Theres no doubt that training to be a professional chef takes hard work and dedication, but for me nothing beats working with food experimenting, exploring new techniques and discovering new flavours. Ive spent years cooking the same dishes over and over, perfecting the techniques and seeking out the best ways to harness flavour. Practical Cookery will help you as you embark on this process: it provides you with all of the classic recipes, as well the basic skills, techniques and knowledge youll need when working in the professional kitchen. It will be a point of reference for you to return to time and again throughout your career as you hone your skills.

My approach has also been to question and test culinary ideas, and to combine this with more traditional kitchen skills. While learning the foundations is important, so too is a natural curiosity and a desire to learn about every aspect of gastronomy, including exploring latest principles and techniques. It is this combination of the traditional with the modern that is at the heart of the Practical Cookery approach.

I wish you every success with your course, and with your career in the professional kitchen.

Heston Bluemthal

This book has been written to cover everything you need for the Level 2 Diploma in Professional Cookery. The book is divided into 15 chapters, each covering one unit of your course.

You will find the following features in the book:

The following features can be used to help you to prepare for assessment:

Refer to the Preparing for assessment section on page for more guidance on assessment and how this book can help you to prepare.

In the recipes, the main methods of cookery are shown by icons. So if you want to practise shallow frying for example, look for the relevant icon. They look like this:

Recipes also include the following features:

Ingredients lists are provided for making smaller and larger quantities.

Nutritional data is included for most recipes to help you make informed choices about what to cook and eat.

Healthy eating tips provide suggestions on how recipes can be adapted to make them healthier.

Variation boxes suggest alternative ingredients, cooking methods or presentation, finishing and serving styles that could be used.

There are free videos on the website. Look out for the QR codes throughout the book.

To view the videos you will need a QR code reader for your smartphone/tablet. There are many free readers available, depending on the smartphone/tablet you are using.

Once you have downloaded a QR code reader, simply open the reader app and use it to take a photo of the code. The file will then load on your smartphone/tablet.

If you cannot read the QR code or you are using a computer, the weblink next to the code will take you directly to the same place.

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