101 Things I Learned In Culinary School (Review)

101 Things I Learned in Culinary School is a really neat book that's difficult to describe in just a few sentences!  While it doesn't contain a lot of text, it does contain a lot of information.  The 101 "Things" include tips for selecting cookware, purchasing ingredients, preparing foods, and serving dishes; quotations, restaurant lingo, and more.

If you're looking for the right knife, pan, potato, rice, pepper, salt, oil, or cut of beef for a particular use, this book will tell you.  If you would like to know what it means to keep kosher or to keep halal, or to learn about Hindu food practices, or to find out the difference between vegetarian and vegan ... this book has the facts.  If you need to know how to handle a choking emergency, an allergic reaction, or a grease fire, you'll find it here.  (I suggest you read the book ahead of time, rather than waiting for the emergency to occur!)

I read through this book quickly, but I'll refer back to it for the information it contains.  (That would be easier if the book had an index, but I can easily mark the pages I know I'll use again.)  While I already knew some of what the book teaches, I had plenty of I didn't know that! moments while I was reading it, as well.

Find out more about 101 Things I Learned in Culinary School at the Hachette Book Group product page, and find out where to purchase a copy.

Win it: Thanks to Grand Central Publishing and Hachette Book Group, three readers will each win a copy of 101 Things I Learned in Culinary School.

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Disclosure: I received a copy of the book, at no cost to me, for review purposes.