Food and Cooking as a Profession

Julie & Julia

A culinary legend provides a frustrated office worker more...0 points

A culinary legend provides a frustrated office worker with a new recipe for life in Julie & Julia, the true stories of how Julia Child's (Meryl Streep) life and cookbook inspired fledgling writer Julie Powell (Amy Adams) to whip up 524 recipes in 365 days and introduce a new generation to the magic of French cooking. Stanley Tucci (The Devil Wears Prada) co-stars in director Nora Ephron's delicious comedy about joy, obsession and butter. Bon appétit!0 points

Babette's Feast

Artistic, sensual and sacred passions unite in Bab more...0 points

Artistic, sensual and sacred passions unite in Babette's Feast. Written and directed by Gabriel Axel, from a short story by Out of Africa's Isak Dinesen, this Oscar(r)-winning*film offers "an irresistible mixture of dry wit and robust humanity" (Newsweek). Onthe desolate coast of Denmark live Martina and Philippa, the beautiful daughters of a devout clergyman who preaches salvation through self-denial. Both girls sacrifice youthful passion to faith and duty, and even many years after their fathe...0 points

Ratatouille

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Simply Irresistible

Beautiful restaurant owner Amanda Shelton (Sarah M more...0 points

Beautiful restaurant owner Amanda Shelton (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is falling head over heels for handsome, hard-driving executive Tom Bartlett (Sean Patrick Flanery). Unfortunately, Tom is too busy to recognize that she's truly the girl of his dreams until Amanda puts him under her tantalizing spell!0 points

No Reservations

A perfectionist chef addicted to her work struggle more...0 points

A perfectionist chef addicted to her work struggles to adjust when her sister passes away leaving her with a little girl to raise and a new soup-chef threatens to take over her kitchen with his high-spirited and free-wheeling ways.0 points

Mystic Pizza

Adult romances of three waitresses from Mystic, Conn., more...0 points

Adult romances of three waitresses from Mystic, Conn., who discover that the future is not always predictable.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: RRelease Date: 13-NOV-2001Media Type: DVD0 points

The Devil Wears Prada (Widescreen Edition)

Based on the hilarious best-selling novel, this si more...0 points

Based on the hilarious best-selling novel, this sinfully funny movie starring Academy Award(r) winner Meryl Streep* and Anne Hathaway is "sensationally entertaining in every way" (maxim). As assistant to impossibly demanding New York fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (Streep), young Andy Sachs (Hathaway) has landed a job that "a million girls would die for." Unfortunately, her heaven-sent appointment as Miranda's personal whipping girl just might be the death of her!0 points

Waitress (Widescreen Edition)

Don't miss writer/director Adrienne Shelly's sweet more...0 points

Don't miss writer/director Adrienne Shelly's sweet, sassy comedy about the power of friendship, motherhood and second chances, starring the radiant Keri Russell who serves up "a hilarious and heartfelt performance" (Rolling Stone).0 points

Last Holiday (Widescreen Edition)

Enjoy Yourself %u2026 It's Later Than You Think! I more...0 points

Enjoy Yourself %u2026 It's Later Than You Think! It's advice to follow for shy New Orleans cookware salesclerk Georgia Byrd (Oscar® nominee* Queen Latifah) when her doctor informs her that she has less than a month to live. With news like that, it's time to give your life a serious makeover! So Georgia jets off on a dream vacation to live life like there's no tomorrow. Enjoy hearty laughs and rollicking comedic misadventures when Georgia shakes up a glamorous European resort spa while enthusiast...0 points

Spanglish

John Clasky (Adam Sandler) is a devoted dad whose more...0 points

John Clasky (Adam Sandler) is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have afforded his family (T=E9a Leoni, Cloris Leachman) a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new housekeeper, Flor (Paz Vega), who has recently immigrated to L.A. from Mexico, and is trying to find a better life for her remarkable daughter, Cristina (Shelbie Bruce), who is rapidly embracing the American way of life. When Flor and Cristina move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fi...0 points

Chocolat (Miramax Collector's Series)

Nominated for 5 Academy Awards(R) including Best P more...0 points

Nominated for 5 Academy Awards(R) including Best Picture, Best Actress (Juliette Binoche -- THE ENGLISH PATIENT), and Best Supporting Actress (Judi Dench -- SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE), CHOCOLAT is the beautiful and captivating comedy from the acclaimed director of THE CIDER HOUSE RULES! Nobody could have imagined the impact that the striking Vianne (Binoche) would make when she arrived in a tranquil, old-fashioned French town. In her very unusual chocolate shop, Vianne begins to create mouth-watering....0 points

Woman on Top

When Isabella decides to break free from her rocky more...0 points

When Isabella decides to break free from her rocky marriage and move to San Francisco, she discovers the perfect recipe for coming out on top - her own hit TV cooking show. But when her producer (Mark Feuerstein, What Women Want) falls in love and her ex-husband (Murilo Benicio) comes to town to win her affection back, who knows which man will end up on the bottom? Critics rave Woman On Top is "absolutely captivating" (Movieline) and "one of the most delightful films of the year!" (WNBC) Filled....0 points

Tortilla Soup

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God of Cookery

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Mr. Nice Guy

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Kitchen Confidential - The Complete Series

Jack Bourdain had it all but messed it up going wi more...0 points

Jack Bourdain had it all but messed it up going wild. Four years later, he ends up with a crappy job in Pizza Chain. Then, he gets an offer to get back in the game as the chef of a famous restaurant.0 points

Deep Blue Sea

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Stranger Than Fiction

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Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Morley more...0 points

George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Morley top the bill of fare in this food- and fun-filled mystery garnished with wit. Segal plays a glib fast-food tycoon and Bisset is his ex-wife, a pastry chef who may become the last course in an enigmatic killer's banquet of death. Morley has a tasty field day as an acerbic gourmet magazine publisher whose cascading series of chins and stomachs bear witness to his love of fine dining. But the mogul's doctors have ordered him to give up his favorite dishes...0 points

Mostly Martha

An uptight gourmet chef learns to loosen up when she more...0 points

An uptight gourmet chef learns to loosen up when she becomes the caretaker of her orphaned niece, and meets an Italian chef.Genre: Foreign Film - GermanRating: PGRelease Date: 12-DEC-2003Media Type: DVD0 points

Eat Drink Man Woman

From celebrated director Ang Lee (The Ice Storm, S more...0 points

From celebrated director Ang Lee (The Ice Storm, Sense and Sensibility) comes a movieso visually stunning that it spans the "beautiful balance of elementsmellow, harmonious and poignantly funny" (The Washington Post). This "charming study of love, family and tradition" (Leonard Maltin) "tickles both mind and body" (Movie Reviews UK). Trouble is cooking forwidower and master chef Chu (Sihung Lung) who's about to discover that no matter how dazzling and delicious his culinary creations might be, t...0 points

Chef! - The Complete Collection (Series 1-3)

Meet Britain's finest -- and most ill-tempered -- chef, more...0 points

Meet Britain's finest -- and most ill-tempered -- chef, Gareth Blackstock (Lenny Henry), of the prestigious Le Chateau Anglais restaurant. Each meal is a masterpiece. Just don't ask for salt. Chef Blackstock rules his kitchen with an iron ladle and puts up with no slacking. The trouble is that his underpaid and overworked kitchen staff is littered with slackers. Tuck in and prepare to double over in laughter with this hilarious and much loved comedy series from the BBC! DVD Features:Biographies:Cast...0 points

Big Night

Primo & Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their more...0 points

Primo & Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring a famous musician to save their struggling restaurant.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: RRelease Date: 6-NOV-2007Media Type: DVD0 points

Like Water for Chocolate

Based on the best-selling book -- now experience f more...0 points

Based on the best-selling book -- now experience for yourself the erotic tale of forbidden love that seduced both critics and audiences nationwide! Tita and Pedro are passionately in love. But their love is forbidden by an ancient family tradition. To be near Tita, Pedro marries her sister. And Tita, as the family cook, expresses her passion for Pedro through preparing delectable dishes. Now, in Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion. Her creations bring on tears of longing,...0 points

Tampopo

Like seeds of a dandelion blowing in the wind, the more...0 points

Like seeds of a dandelion blowing in the wind, the plot of Tampopo wanders in several directions, following the lives of a quirky collection of characters. At the heart of this film is a young widow named Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto), who is struggling to make ends meet by running a noodle restaurant. Goro (Tsutomu Yamazaki), a truck driver, saves Tampopo's young son from being beaten by a group of school girls and is rewarded with a bowl of very bad ramen (noodles). Goro tells Tampopo the awful truth...0 points

Under Siege

Terrorists take over a battleship to sell the nuclear more...0 points

Terrorists take over a battleship to sell the nuclear arms aboard. However, they have not taken the ship's cook into account when they planned the takeover.Genre: Feature Film-Action/AdventureRating: RRelease Date: 3-FEB-2004Media Type: DVD0 points

Alice (Television Favorites Compilation)

On her way out to Hollywood to become a singer, Al more...0 points

On her way out to Hollywood to become a singer, Alice's car breaks down in Phoenix. With no money and a son to care for, Alice takes a waitress job at Mel's Diner. Here she works with the ornery owner and chef, Mel, the man-hungry whipper-snapper, Flo, and the ditzy Vera. Together they encounter the lovable regulars and other interesting characters passing through. Based on the Oscar-winning movie "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," this classic television series lasted nine seasons and touched t...0 points

Secrets of The M*A*S*H Mess: The Lost Recipes of Private Igor by Jeff Maxwell

In this new chapter of the M*A*S*H* legacy, Jeff M more...0 points

In this new chapter of the M*A*S*H* legacy, Jeff Maxwell, who for nine years played the role of Private Igor, the beleaguered cook of the 4077th, stirs up a zesty blend of delicious recipes guaranteed to satisfy discriminating chow lines in anyone's mess tent. Troops everywhere will wolf down the hearty breakfasts, quick and easy lunches, and belly-filling dinners Maxwell provides. Readers will savor his eminently edible formulas for such delicacies as Cream of Weenie Soup, Potter's Puey Pork Ch...0 points

Cooking by James Peterson

In an era of outfitted home kitchens and food fasc more...0 points

In an era of outfitted home kitchens and food fascination, it's no wonder home cooks who never learned the fundamentals of the kitchen are intimidated. Twenty years ago, James Peterson could relate, and so he taught himself by cooking his way through professional kitchens and stacks of books, logging the lessons of his kitchen education one by one. Now one of the country's most revered cooking teachers, Peterson provides the confidence-building instructions home cooks need to teach themselves to...0 points

How to Cook Like a Top Chef by The Creators of Top Chef

The number one food show on cable TV presents the ultimate more...0 points

The number one food show on cable TV presents the ultimate guide to becoming a Top Chef. This cookbook and culinary primer in one features recipes from all six seasons of the show and season one of Top Chef: Masters, along with insider techniques from everyone's favorite contestants and judges. Covering everything from knife skills to sauces and sous-vide, How to Cook Like a Top Chef teaches aspiring chefs what it takes to be a star in the kitchen. Packed with exclusive content including a foreword...0 points

Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.) by Anthony Bourdain

A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of more...0 points

A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine-now with all-new, never-before-published material 0 points

A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines by Anthony Bourdain

The only thing "gonzo gastronome" and internationally more...0 points

The only thing "gonzo gastronome" and internationally bestselling author Anthony Bourdain loves as much as cooking is traveling. Inspired by the question, "What would be the perfect meal?," Tony sets out on a quest for his culinary holy grail, and in the process turns the notion of "perfection" inside out. From California to Cambodia, A Cooks' Tour chronicles the unpredictable adventures of America's boldest and bravest chef.0 points

No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach by Anthony Bourdain

An illustrated, behind-the-scenes travel journal of more...0 points

An illustrated, behind-the-scenes travel journal of Anthony Bourdain's global adventures. More than just a companion to the hugely popular show, No Reservations is Bourdain's fully illustrated journal of his far-flung travels. The book traces his trips from New Zealand to New Jersey and everywhere in between, mixing beautiful, never-before-seen photos and mementos with Bourdain's outrageous commentary on what really happens when you give a bad-boy chef an open ticket to the world. Want to know where...0 points

Gordon Ramsay's World Kitchen: Recipes from The F-Word by Gordon Ramsay

With so many varieties of cuisine available in our more...0 points

With so many varieties of cuisine available in our increasingly global lives, Gordon Ramsay has put together an amazing book featuring his favorite recipes from around the world. Each chapter offersa fresh perspective and new twists on beloved dishes from different countries. In addition, he explains certain techniques to prepare each type of cuisine. For example, he shows how to make fresh pasta, which is then used in his recipe for Spinach, Ricotta, and Pine Nut Ravioli. Use his Curry Paste fo...0 points

What's a Cook to Do?: An Illustrated Guide to 484 Essential Tips, Techniques, and Tricks by James Peterson

From America's favorite cooking teacher, multiple award-winner more...0 points

From America's favorite cooking teacher, multiple award-winner James Peterson, an invaluable reference handbook. Culinary students everywhere rely on the comprehensive and authoritative cookbooks published by chef, instructor, and award-winning author Jim Peterson. And now, for the first time, this guru-to-the-professionals turns his prodigious knowledge into a practical, chockablock, quick-reference, A-to-Z answer book for the rest of us. Look elsewhere for how to bone skate or trim out a saddle...0 points

Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques by Jacques Pépin

The fully illustrated bible of cooking techniques from more...0 points

The fully illustrated bible of cooking techniques from the world's best-known French cook is now in paperback and in one volume for the first time ever. From a master chef and the current co-star (with Julia Child) of the hit television series "Cooking at Home," comes everything the home cook needs to perfect his or her kitchen skills-assisted by instructive, step-by-step photography. Learn to de-bone a chicken, poach an egg, whisk a perfect bearnaise, knead a tangy sourdough, or bake an exquisite...0 points

Think Like a Chef by Tom Colicchio

With Think Like a Chef, Tom Colicchio has created a more...0 points

With Think Like a Chef, Tom Colicchio has created a new kind of cookbook. Rather than list a series of restaurant recipes, he uses simple steps to deconstruct a chef's creative process, making it easily available to any home cook.He starts with techniques: What's roasting, for example, and how do you do it in the oven or on top of the stove? He also gets you comfortable with braising, sautéing, and making stocks and sauces. Next he introduces simple "ingredients" -- roasted tomatoes, say, or braised...0 points

Baking by James Peterson

James Peterson is the premiere go-to source for ho more...0 points

James Peterson is the premiere go-to source for home cooks of every level. His newest book and the second in a series of instructional tomes, BAKING teaches all the essential basics--how to make fail-proof tender pie dough, a fabulous birthday cake, sourdough starter that actually works, legendary babka, and more. In more than 300 recipes, each accompanied by handy instructional photos, Peterson guides readers through the techniques for creating perfect breads, cakes, cookies, pies, and pastries...0 points

Working the Plate: The Art of Food Presentation by Christopher Styler

Feast your eyes. Long awaited by professional chefs, more...0 points

Feast your eyes. Long awaited by professional chefs, this groundbreaking guide to food presentation will also delight and inspire culinary students and sophisticated home cooks. Acclaimed food writer and culinary producer Christopher Styler describes seven distinctive plating styles, from Minimalist to Naturalist to Dramatic, with several striking examples of every genre. Each plating suggestion is accompanied by clear instructions along with color photos of step-by-step techniques and finished...0 points

The Decorative Art of Japanese Food Carving: Elegant Garnishes for All Occasions by Hiroshi Nagashima

Japanese cuisine is renowned for the beauty of its more...0 points

Japanese cuisine is renowned for the beauty of its presentation. Among the key elements in this presentation style are mukimono--the decorative garnishes and carvings that add the final flourish to a dish. It might be a carrot round in the shape of a plum blossom. Or a scattering of cherry blossoms plucked from a radish. Perhaps a swallow, a butterfly, a ginkgo leaf or a cluster of pine needles. Whatever the motif, it will have been created to delight the eye and the palate with its shape, color,...0 points

Meat: A Kitchen Education by James Peterson

Award-winning author James Peterson is renowned for more...0 points

Award-winning author James Peterson is renowned for his instructive, encyclopedic cookbooks-each one a master course in the fundamentals of cooking.  Like well-honed knives, his books are indispensable tools for any kitchen enthusiast, from the novice home cook, to the aspiring chef, to the seasoned professional. Meat: A Kitchen Education is Peterson's guide for carnivores, with more than 175 recipes and 550 photographs that offer a full range of meat and poultry cuts and preparation techniques,...0 points

Food Presentation Secrets: Styling Techniques of Professionals by Cara Hobday, Jo Denbury

A practical guide to adding that professional flourish more...0 points

A practical guide to adding that professional flourish to any dish. Food Presentation Secrets provides professional cooking school instruction, tips and recipes for more than 100 sweet and savory garnishing ideas. Using this comprehensive guide, any home chef can make professional-looking garnishes with delicious edible ingredients. Five comprehensive sections reveal the techniques, tools, ingredients and designs used by chefs in fine restaurants. Step-by-step illustrations show how to assemble the...0 points

The Recipe Writer's Handbook, Revised and Updated by Barbara Gibbs Ostmann, Jane Baker

The Recipe Writer's Handbook Revised and Updated Barbara more...0 points

The Recipe Writer's Handbook Revised and Updated Barbara Gibbs Ostmann and Jane L. Baker The definitive reference for recipe writing Offering comprehensive guidance on the intimate elements of the recipe writing art, The Recipe Writer's Handbook is an indispensable companion for anyone who develops, tests, writes, or edits recipes-for publication, for broadcast, or simply to share with family and friends. The Handbook shows how to achieve accuracy and consistency-the hallmarks...0 points

Food Jobs: 150 Great Jobs for Culinary Students, Career Changers and Food Lovers by Irena Chalmers

WINNER: 2008 Gourmand World Cook Book Awards: Best more...0 points

WINNER: 2008 Gourmand World Cook Book Awards: Best Food Book for Professionals "In these difficult times, jobs are probably the most important issue, before banks or real estate ... FOOD JOBS is packed with practical information, easy and even funny, very serious and accurate in its comments and advice. It is difficult to imagine how it could be better."- Edouard Cointreau, founder and president of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards Do you want to turn your passion for food into a career? Take a...0 points

Nutrition for Foodservice and Culinary Professionals by Karen E. Drummond, Lisa M. Brefere

Updated and revised to address current concerns about more...0 points

Updated and revised to address current concerns about nutrition throughout the life cycle, Nutrition for Foodservice and Culinary Professionals, Seventh Edition successfully covers core nutritional topics such as carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, and dietary needs from a culinary perspective. Bursting with a full-color design and plenty of photographs and illustrations, Drummond and Brefere link nutritional concepts with healthy cooking techniques and recipes. Each book comes with a nutritional...0 points

Food Styling: The Art of Preparing Food for the Camera by Delores Custer

Based on her 30 years of experience in food styling more...0 points

Based on her 30 years of experience in food styling for advertising, magazines, books, and films, Delores Custer presents the definitive lifelong reference on food styling-complete with lists of handy tools and vital equipment, recipes for artificial foods, and guidelines for running a successful food styling business. Full of ingenious advice on styling in any media and packed with full-color photographs, Food Styling reveals every trick of the trade, from making a beverage appear to sweat to producing...0 points

On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals (5th Edition) (MyCulinaryLab Series) by Sarah R. Labensky, Priscilla A. Martel, Alan M. Hause

Attractively designed and extensively illustrated with more...0 points

Attractively designed and extensively illustrated with color photographs, line drawings, charts, and sidebars, this contemporary introduction to cooking and food preparation focuses on information that is relevant to today's aspiring chef. Comprehensive and well-written, it emphasizes an understanding of cooking fundamentals, explores the preparation of fresh ingredients, and provides information on other relevant topics, such as food history and food science. This introduction to cooking outlines...0 points

Professional Cooking by Wayne Gisslen

The Study Guide to Accompany Professional Cooking, more...0 points

The Study Guide to Accompany Professional Cooking, Seventh Edition is a useful tool to help students study and review the material in the textbook Professional Cooking. It contains 35 chapters of key exercises related to key terms; true/false questions; completion, short-answer, and other written exercises; and math exercises. The purpose is to reinforce learning, support your study efforts, and assist you in mastering the material.0 points

Becoming a Chef by Andrew Dornenburg, Karen Page

The updated edition of the book Julia Child called more...0 points

The updated edition of the book Julia Child called "a 'must' for aspiring chefs"-the James Beard Award-winning guide to one of today's hottest careers With more and more chefs achieving celebrity status, interest in the exciting world of today's leading chefs is higher than ever. Essential reading for anyone who loves food, Becoming a Chef gives an entertaining and informative insider's look at this dynamic profession, going behind the scenes to look into some of the most celebrated restaurant kitchens...0 points