Nutrition for Foodservice and Culinary Professionals

Nutrition for Foodservice and Culinary Professionals, 9th Edition is the definitive resource that helps readers use nutritional principles to evaluate and modify menus and recipes and to respond to customers’ critical questions and dietary needs. The Ninth Edition includes a discussion of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and key updated content. More photographs, charts, and recipes are used to effectively convey nutrition concepts and applications in a visual manner. From students in culinary arts, hospitality management, and nutrition and dietetics programs to practicing culinary and management professionals, this book will be an invaluable reference.

• Fundamentals of Nutrition and Foods: Two introductory chapters are followed by chapters on specific nutrients, vitamins, and minerals.
• Balanced Cooking and Menus: This section begins with foundations of balanced cooking, followed by recipe makeovers and balanced menus.
• Applied Nutrition: This section begins with a chapter that explains customers’ special nutrition requests and then continues with weight management and lifespan nutrition, with Hot Topic Fighting Childhood Obesity.
• Updated and revised to reflect the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
• Improved Learning Design. Sections are now aligned to key learning objectives and tied closer to key American Culinary Federation nutrition competencies.

KAREN EICH DRUMMOND is the author and co-author of numerous books, including?The?Restaurant Training Manual?and?The?Dictionary of Nutrition and Dietetics,?all published by Wiley. She is a Registered Dietitian and a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly the American Dietetic Association).

LISA M. BREFERE is a Certified Executive Chef with more than thirty years of experience. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, she is a member of the American Culinary Federation and the American Academy of Chefs, and if co-founder and CEO if GigaChef Consulting and CookingDistrict.com. She is the co-author of So You Want to be a Chef? and So You are a Chef, both published by Wiley.