Providing a foundation of professional cookery for catering students, this book offers information about different types of foods and the processes of cookery as well as hundreds of classic recipes. It is a textbook for all students of catering, particularly those studying CGL1 705 and 706/1/2/3 catering courses, the BTEC Certificate and Diploma and Higher Certificate and Diploma, and for examinations of the HCIMA. An ELBS/LPBB edition is available.