Description:Study from the best for guaranteed career success! Wayne Gisslen’s Professional Cooking has led the way as “simply the best” resource for new and practicing chefs! It is the best-selling undergraduate food preparation textbook in the marketplace.With its clear and effective approach to mastering basic skills and concepts through understanding and practice, Professional Cooking has earned a permanent place in the lives of millions of chefs whose careers it has helped launch. Wayne Gisslen's reputation for being able to simply, yet comprehensively, communicate information to beginning chefs is unsurpassed.