Description
“Food Presentation Secrets: Styling Techniques of Professionals” is a comprehensive guide that delves into the art of creating visually stunning dishes. This book explores the importance of presentation in culinary arts and provides expert tips and tricks from top professionals in the industry. Readers will learn how to elevate their dishes through creative styling techniques and showcase their culinary skills.
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When it comes to serving a delicious meal, presentation is just as important as taste. Food Presentation Secrets: Styling Techniques of Professionals is a must-have guide for anyone looking to elevate their culinary creations to the next level. From simple tips to expert techniques, this book has everything you need to wow your guests and make your dishes Instagram-worthy.
Tips from the Pros
In Food Presentation Secrets, you’ll learn insider secrets from top chefs and food stylists on how to plate like a pro. With step-by-step instructions and stunning photography, this book will inspire you to create visually stunning dishes that are as beautiful as they are delicious.
From choosing the right plates and garnishes to mastering the art of layering and stacking, Food Presentation Secrets covers it all. You’ll learn how to use color, texture, and shape to create eye-catching presentations that will leave your guests in awe.
Practical and Easy to Follow
One of the best things about Food Presentation Secrets is that the techniques are practical and easy to follow. You don’t need a culinary degree or fancy equipment to create stunning dishes – just a little creativity and a willingness to experiment.
Whether you’re a home cook looking to impress your family or a professional chef wanting to up your plating game, this book has something for everyone. It’s the perfect resource for anyone who wants to take their cooking to the next level.
Inspiration for Every Occasion
Food Presentation Secrets is packed with ideas for every occasion, from casual weeknight dinners to elegant dinner parties. Whether you’re serving appetizers, main courses, or desserts, you’ll find plenty of inspiration to help you create memorable and visually stunning dishes.
With tips on everything from choosing the right serving platters to creating edible works of art, Food Presentation Secrets will help you transform your meals into culinary masterpieces. You’ll be amazed at how a little extra effort can turn a simple dish into something truly extraordinary.
Overall, Food Presentation Secrets: Styling Techniques of Professionals is a must-have resource for anyone looking to take their cooking to the next level. With practical tips, easy-to-follow instructions, and stunning photography, this book is sure to inspire and delight home cooks and professional chefs alike. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to elevate your culinary creations – pick up a copy of Food Presentation Secrets today and start plating like a pro.
Price: $29.95 - $23.67
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Product Description
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 garnishes, and each is graded in difficulty from one to five. Handy checklists, tip boxes and identifier directories explain the best ways to use the different garnishes.
The features include:
How and why to garnish, history of garnishing, modern garnish styles
Essential cooking tips and rules of presentation
The aesthetics of plate styles and shapes
Useful tools and essential knives
Core garnishing techniques using sauces, gravies, oils, salsas, pestos, foliage, flowers, fruit, vegetables, flour-based garnishes, dairy, sugars, pastries, ices, chocolate and textures
Food Presentation Secrets rivals a professional culinary course and will give all cooks the confidence to create attractive designs for any type of menu.
From the Publisher
Food Presentation Secrets: Styling Techniques of Professionals
Introduction
Much has changed over the last 15 years on the world’s restaurant scene. On the one hand classic rules are broken, while on the other simple rustic food is championed. The home cook is tempted by the buzz of new ingredients, but a little wary of how to present them.
In this book we have set out to give you the rules of food presentation, or styling, that will allow you to become an artist in your own home. Because that is what a true cook is — an artist who has the skills to allow the freedom of imagination and the ability to translate this to the plate.
Let this book guide you on your presentation journey. On the following pages you’ll find all you need to know — from choosing your style of plate and table settings to sourcing the ingredients themselves. Whether you are looking for an interesting way to present everyday vegetables, or a flamboyant sugar display to adorn a dessert. The Techniques Directory has a wealth of food styling ideas for you to choose from that will wow any diner.
In the course of a meal, each dish should herald the next, building the excitement before the grand finale of the dessert. With an understanding of the food-presentation formulas that work, you will be able to create beautifully-presented dishes to tempt and excite your guests’ palates. Enjoy!
Pastry lattice
1 Roll the pastry out to an even thickness. Transfer it to a baking sheet and chill for 10 minutes in the refrigerator. Then lay the pastry out on a well-floured surface and, using a small sharp knife, cut into strips of your required width. We have cut 2/5 inch (1 cm) wide strips.
2 Lay the first two strips in the corner of your work surface, the first running horizontally, and the second overlapping the first at a right angle, approximately 4/5 inch (2 cm) away from one end.
3 Now lay the third strip in line parallel to the first, but so the end is over the second strip. To lay the fourth strip, lift up the second strip and tuck the fourth strip under. Repeat the technique with the remaining strips. As the lattice builds, fold back every other strip to lay the new strip down, making sure that it lies in the opposite form to the one next to it.
4 Build your lattice to the size required then neatly cut out a circle using a cutter. If making a larger lattice, use your baking pan to check the size and cut around the edges with a sharp knife. Apply the lattice top and bake until golden. The pastry lattice tops can be made in advance and stored in the refrigerator.
Chocolate-dipped fruit
1 Select fresh firm fruit, such as raspberries, strawberries, mango or peach. Use a soft brush to brush off any dust or debris. Leave the hulls on the strawberries and cut the mango and peach into slices.
2 Meanwhile, melt the chocolate in a non-metallic dish over a pan of barely simmering water. Do not allow the dish to touch the water or become too hot, since the chocolate will seize and become unusable.
3 Take a piece of fruit on a dipping fork and dip into the chocolate, coating half and leaving half bare to show the color of the fruit.
4 Set a wire rack over a tray of piece of paper towel to catch the chocolate drips and make for an easier clean-up. Set the dipped fruit on the wire rack to drain and cool. Store in an airtight container and use within one day.
Publisher : Firefly Books; 1.6.2010 edition (February 19, 2010)
Language : English
Hardcover : 176 pages
ISBN-10 : 1554074916
ISBN-13 : 978-1554074914
Item Weight : 1.45 pounds
Dimensions : 8 x 0.69 x 8 inches
Price: $29.95 - $23.67
(as of Oct 19, 2024 07:49:14 UTC – Details)
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