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Appears in
Professional Cooking: 10th Edition
Professional Cooking

By Wayne Gisslen

Published 2025

  • About
  • Enhanced Recipe Management Tools: Edit, scale, view nutritional information, convert from U.S. to metric measures and vice versa; print and share recipes. Users can also add their own recipes and create and revise shopping lists.
  • Search recipes by main ingredient, primary cooking method, and cuisine type.
  • Calculate nutritional analyses and update if an ingredient is changed.
  • My Files: Organize your recipes, your images, and your videos in one location.
  • Technique Videos: Nearly 200 technique videos that clearly demonstrate essential kitchen skills. These videos can be used for study prior to class or review afterward, or as a step-by-step demonstration before lab.
  • Audio Pronunciations: Within the extensive glossary, CulinarE-Companion™ has over 1,000 terms with audio pronunciations to make learning a snap.
  • Food Costing: Calculate food costs based on each ingredient’s individual cost.
  • Unit Conversions: Scale recipes and units of measures are converted to the next logical unit.
  • Adding New Ingredients: Add new ingredients that do not exist in CulinarE-Companion™ and they are automatically added into the ingredient database.
  • Nutritional Analysis: Add ingredients to a recipe that does not have nutritional information and select from an existing list of ingredients with possible USDA matches so nutritional analysis is complete.