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A chef's tools

Order up! This book introduces readers to a chef's career by focusing on the tools they use. Readers explore essential tools used in a restaurant's kitchen, including peelers, knives, timers, and thermometers. The text demonstrates how each tool works and how it helps a chef make a meal. Accessible text and eye-catching photographs are sure to grab the reader's attention, while fascinating facts deepen their understanding of tools and careers in a fun and dynamic way. The book concludes with a graphic organizer highlighting the tools mentioned and their functions, which will round out the reader's learning experience. Detailed Table of Contents, For Further Information Section, Glossary, Index, Web Sites, Graphic Organizers.

A Plate of Hope

The Inspiring Story of Chef Jose? Andre?s and World Central Kitchen
A biography about chef Jose? Andre?s, who, through his World Central Kitchen organization, is fulfilling a vision to feed people in need all over the world.

The chef

Did you know that chefs can cook many healthy meals by memory? Learn more about chefs in the book.

Ice cream man

how Augustus Jackson made a sweet treat better
"This picture book biography recounts the extraordinary life of Augustus Jackson, an African American entrepreneur who is known as the "Father of Ice Cream.""--.

No reservations

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 souz-chef threatens to take over her kitchen with his high-spirited and free-wheeling ways.

Fieldwork

a Forager's memoir
"With her first book, Regan announced herself as a writer whose extravagant, unconventional talents matched her abilities as a lauded chef. In her follow-up, she digs even deeper to express the meaning and beauty we seek in the landscapes, and stories, that reveal the forces which inform, shape, and nurture our lives"--.

Beaten, seared, and sauced

on becoming a chef at the Culinary Institute of America
Jonathan Dixon recounts his experiences as a student at the Culinary Institute of America, describing how he and his fellow students learned how to become master chefs from some of the country's greatest, and most demanding, teachers and experienced the high-pressure demands of one of New York City's top restaurants.

Jose feeds the world

how a famous chef feeds millions of people in need around the world
2024
"The true story of Jose Andres, an award-winning chef, food activist, and founder of World Central Kitchen, a disaster-relief organization that uses the power of food to nourish communities after catastrophe strikes. When a terrible earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, chef Jose Andres knew he needed to help. Within a few hours of the disaster, he had gathered friends, they flew to the island, and they began cooking rice and beans for the hungry locals. This trip changed the life of the successful chef and led him to found World Central Kitchen, a disaster-relief organization that has fed more than 200 million people affected by natural disasters, the COVID pandemic, and war. This . . . illustrated book tells the story of a . . . chef who uses the power of food to nurture people in need, one plate at a time"--Provided by publisher.
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The Screaming Chef

a picture book
2017
A young boy who screams except while eating takes over the cooking, and proves so talented that his parents open a restaurant with him as head chef.
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I could bee a chef!

2022
"Early readers learn what a chef does!"--Provided by publisher.
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