Catalog Search Results
Language
English
Description
Experience kitchen chemistry and the wonders of food science. Host Susan Turgeson (2009 AAFCS Nat'l Teacher of the Year) and students demonstrate six fun and easy food science experiments that can be conducted in any kitchen, while explaining the science behind them. Chaptered into segments, experimemts include: Emulsions, Fermentation, Scientific Method, Hand Washing and Food Safety, Biochemistry of Milk & Sensory Evaluation. Also includes an interview...
Language
English
Description
Taiwan is known around the world as having one of the most diverse cuisines in Asia, and food is the foremost passion of its 23 million inhabitants. The raw and the cooked is a sumptuous exploration of the island's rich culinary traditions, and their relationship to the Taiwan's unique mix of cultures. The film begins in Taipei, circles the island, and then heads inland. Along the way we enter the world-renowned restaurant Shin Yeh atop the city's...
Language
English
Description
Cooking and baking are perfect examples of math used in everyday life. Join Chef Dave Christopherson as he takes a closer look at practical applications of math at the grocery store and in the kitchen. Basic math skills are used to determine recipe costs, converting recipes, determining timing, and more. Kitchen and math concepts presented in short video segments include: reading a recipe, measuring techniques, kitchen equivalents, timing a meal,...
Language
English
Description
Is baking basic chemistry? Are ingredients basic biology? And is cooking basic math? If you can't tell a tsp from a TBL, you're likely to get a pancake when you wanted a souffle. Basic math is needed to help you properly prepare a recipe your guests will enjoy, or to change your favorite recipe to serving ten people instead of four. Matt the Mathematical Cook is a lively host who will multiply, divide, measure and whip up a few recipes in the process....
Language
English
Description
For six months of the year, renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adri closes his restaurant El Bulli and works with his culinary team to prepare the menu for the next season. An elegant, detailed study of food as avant-garde art, El Bulli: cooking in progress is a tasty peek at some of the world's most innovative and exciting cooking; as Adri himself puts it, "the more bewilderment, the better!"
Language
English
Description
In this meticulously researched documentary, filmmaker Mark Hall traces the origins of sushi in Japan to its status today as a cuisine that has spawned a lucrative worldwide industry. This explosion in demand for sushi over the past 30 years has brought with it problems of its own, as fish stocks have steadily depleted, threatening the balance of the ocean's ecosystems. Through extensive interviews with prominent industry representatives and environmental...
Language
English
Description
Get Cooking joins the cubs as they sing, dance, suffer bread-baking disasters, and more, in eight exciting adventures: Stop That Pickle! & Chicks and Salsa; Ruby Sings the Blues & The Camel Dances; Making Bread & Cheesybreadville; and Bein' With You This Way & How to Be. Key words: garden, loud, dance, corn, and you.
Series
Language
English
Description
Designed for the novice in the kitchen, or for someone who wants to brush up on their culinary skills. Basic Food Preparation concentrates on tips & techniques. How to select and prepare the very best ingredients so that we get a recipe that works every time we make it. Learn how to cut, chop, slice, dice, mince, julienne, blanch, clean, debone, braise, roast, sautee, boil, fry, poach, and more!
10) Seafood basics
Series
Language
English
Description
Renowned Seattle Chef Tom Small provides the basics of choosing, storing and preparing seafood. It all starts with the finest quality ingredients, where to look, what to look for and what to avoid. Learn how to best keep your seafood as fresh as possible until you are ready to cook. Then how to prepare fish with a variety of different cooking methods.
Language
English
Description
We want all our kids to eat healthy...but how do you actually accomplish it? How do we get them to want to eat healthy? Studies show that life-long healthy eating habits start by having kids help prepare the food! Follow Nica and preschoolers in the kitchen as they have fun learning about nutrition through making healthy snacks. Features easy recipes, ways you can "be prepared", safety tips, and highlights easy jobs in the kitchen that teach preschoolers...
Language
日本語
Description
The 85-year-old Jiro Ono is considered by many to be the world's greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of a 10-seat sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3-star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimages, calling months in advance and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat...
Language
English
Description
Professional chef Jonathan Locke explains and demonstrates measuring tools and techniques in the kitchen. Easy-to-follow guidelines for measuring ingredients, time and temperature are presented in this informational video. Help your students learn about ratios, units of measure, the history of measurement, and how to measure different types of ingredients in Part 1: Understanding Measuring Tools. Part 2: Applying Measuring Techniques gives students...
Language
English
Description
What do you need to know in order to prepare a delicious homemade meal? Whether you're a seasoned cook or just starting out, learn cooking fundamentals with Chef Dave Christopherson. Chef Dave demonstrates and explains a variety of basic cooking techniques necessary for success in the kitchen, including baking, blanching, boiling, grilling, roasting, sautéing, simmering, stir-frying and more as he prepares three simple, "from scratch" meals: Chicken...
Author
Series
Ottolenghi's Mediterranean Feast volume 1
Language
English
Description
Yotam begins his Mediterranean journey in the vibrant city of Marrakesh, inspiring his inner chef to create. He then travels to the luminous Atlas Mountains to dine with the Berbers before venturing onward to the coastal town of Essaouria.
Author
Series
Ottolenghi's Mediterranean Feast volume 3
Language
English
Description
Ottolenghi's Tunisian experience begins in an unusual open-air restaurant that shines a light on the region's extremely fresh seafood and continues at a popular seaside cafe. Tunisia is also a melting pot of many cultures, as you will see.
Author
Series
Delinquent Gourmet volume 6
Language
English
Description
Rodney is in Sardinia, Italy, where he finds culinary inspiration around every corner. His first stop is high in the Sardinian hills where his hosts prepare their specialty - roasted suckling pig. After sitting down to an outdoor family meal (where even the dog helps himself!), Rodney samples a myrtle-flavored liquor before dancing with his gentlemen hosts.
Author
Series
Vegan Mashup volume 12
Language
English
Description
Inquisitive about tempeh -that quintessential and versatile meat free protein? Let's check in with The Vegan Mashup for three essential recipes that will have you reaching for tempeh time and time again!
Author
Series
Loving Spoonfuls volume 10
Language
English
Description
Aida Oducado prepares exotic dishes from the Phillipines and wins a ten dollar bet with David.
Author
Series
Loving Spoonfuls volume 9
Language
English
Description
Sophie Tzoitis is a Greek grandmother who makes the definitive Moussaka and then turns the tables on David.
Interlibrary Loan
Still haven't found what you're looking for? The item may be available through Interlibrary loan (not for materials published in the last 12 months).
Request something new
Submit a request for us to consider a new purchase for our catalog. Submit Request