The National Culinary Review

Plating exposes a chef's deepest beliefs about what food is, and how food should be. This book provides the prerequisites to cultivating a professional viewpoint, to investigate these deeper meanings, by considering the different ways a chef looks at food. The goal of the text is to provide a map of how a chef creates a plate of food by considering common questions such as: Where in the menu is this food item to be placed? And how will it be served? Structured as a design process, this book outlines how personal creativity and professional traditions fuse to create successful plated presentations of food.

James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced—the Great Depression—and how it transformed America’s culinary culture. The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the country’s political and social landscape, forever changed the way America eats. Before 1929, America’s relationship with food was defined by abundance. But the collapse of the economy, in both urban and rural America, left a quarter of all Americans out of work and undernourished—shattering long-held assumptions about the limitlessness of the national larder. In 1933, as women struggled to feed their families, President Roosevelt reversed long-standing biases toward government-sponsored “food charity.” For the first time in American history, the federal government assumed, for a while, responsibility for feeding its citizens. The effects were widespread. Championed by Eleanor Roosevelt, “home economists” who had long fought to bring science into the kitchen rose to national stature. Tapping into America’s long-standing ambivalence toward culinary enjoyment, they imposed their vision of a sturdy, utilitarian cuisine on the American dinner table. Through the Bureau of Home Economics, these women led a sweeping campaign to instill dietary recommendations, the forerunners of today’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans. At the same time, rising food conglomerates introduced packaged and processed foods that gave rise to a new American cuisine based on speed and convenience. This movement toward a homogenized national cuisine sparked a revival of American regional cooking. In the ensuing decades, the tension between local traditions and culinary science has defined our national cuisine—a battle that continues today. A Square Meal examines the impact of economic contraction and environmental disaster on how Americans ate then—and the lessons and insights those experiences may hold for us today. A Square Meal features 25 black-and-white photographs.

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Presents career profiles of positions available in the food and beverage industry.

This is a human interest story of the author's life. It spans his life from his toddler years to well into his retirement. He came from poor uneducated beginnings. Extreme bashfulness was a hindrance most of his life. Haunted by an unsupportive and wife- abusing dad he is spurred on to better himself in every way. He marries young and has a lifelong story book romance. Determined to do well for his beloved wife, he works his way to a degree with no financial aid. Two children were born along the way. This was accomplished by attending full time day school while working full time at night. Undeterred and with the emotional aid of a very supportive wife he goes on to earn a doctorate degree in chemistry acquiring two more children along the way. The next step is a successful career at DuPont and the birth of twins. Public speaking haunts him through most of his life, but he finally conquers it to become an accomplished speaker. He is promoted twice, finally to Senior Supervisor in research at DuPont. Just when his career seems to be blossoming a triple tragedy strikes. Among them is the onset of multiple sclerosis which causes retirement when he is only forty eight years old. There is a long period of trying to adjust to the disability. He was now faced with the inactivity created by the early retirement. But more importantly his hard earned career was now destroyed. Then two more tragedies strike. First he contracts colon cancer but is apparently cured by an operation. But the final blow is unbearable to him. It is the death off his life-long love, his wife. Interwoven in the story is the devotion and love between him and his wife.

More than 100 heirloom recipes from a dynamic chef and farmer working the lands of his great-great-great grandfather. From Hot Buttermilk Biscuits and Sweet Potato Pie to Salmon Cakes on Pepper Rice and Gullah Fish Stew, Gullah Geechee food is an essential cuisine of American history. It is the culinary representation of the ocean, rivers, and rich fertile loam in and around the coastal South. From the Carolinas to Georgia and Florida, this is where descendants of enslaved Africans came together to make extraordinary food, speaking the African Creole language called Gullah Geechee. In this groundbreaking and beautiful cookbook, Matthew Raiford pays homage to this cuisine that nurtured his family for seven generations. In 2010, Raiford’s Nana handed over the deed to the family farm to him and his sister, and Raiford rose to the occasion, nurturing the farm that his great-great-great grandfather, a freed slave, purchased in 1874. In this collection of heritage and updated recipes, he traces a history of community and family brought together by food.