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Marge "MaggieB" Burkell ...and now it's an app for iPads!
I spent a few hours last night quietly “flipping” through a brand new iPad app called The Professional Chef by the Culinary Institute of America. To call this ebook, available through the Inkling platform, a cookbook is equivalent to calling the Queen Elizabeth II a rowboat. Named one of the five favorite culinary books of this decade by Food Arts magazine, The Professional Chef is the classic kitchen reference that many of America’s top chefs have used to understand basic skills and standards for quality as well as develop a sense of how cooking works.
Offering content from the ground up this app explores every avenue that cooking involves. Whether you are an accomplished chef or pure novice this cooking bible will offer what you need and more.
Stay with us after the break to learn more about this absolutely amazing app.
The Professional Chef by the Culinary Institute of America is so impressive that it totally overshadows its 1400 page counterpart. It provides all the traditional book’s content and goes on to provide so much more that it cannot even be classified in the same class as its hardcover cousin.
The Professional Chef Features:
- 850 recipes
- Nearly 750 photographs featuring 175 enhanced images
- More the 100 videos
- 1166 pages
- 36 Chapters
- Glossary
- Embedded tips
- Highlighting
- Sticky Notes
Ability to contact and interact with others using the app- Tests; multiple choice, true or false, and short-answer questions
- Blind identification label testing
- Search
- Appendix
- Video Index
The app is set up as a traditional book in the sense that it has chapters, quizzes at the end of each, an appendix and video index at its end. You read the content and look at pictures as you would the book, but that is where the similarities stop. You can add highlighting and notes throughout the book with a simple tap of your finger. You can search for keywords or terms at any time and find exactly what you are looking for. Not sure of what the content is saying? Add a question that others using the app may answer!
Never before has so much come to us on such a friendly and interactive platform! I sat there, scrolling through content, commenting that the recipes are classics that are sure to please the most discerning palates, with directions, and even videos that will show me, and you, exactly how to make each one! Each video blooms to the full size of the iPad and looks so real that you might jump when that butter pops out of the pan when frying eggs! Need to poach them, don’t worry they’ve got a video for that too!
This app will give you everything from kitchen and food safety to setting up your kitchen, explain every staple of your cupboard, how it works, how best to cook it and more. The Professional Chef will take you, literally from soup to nuts, from your appetizer through dessert. Never again will you wonder what if and how to. By teaching you the basics of each ingredient, and how to use it not only to its best advantage, but how it will interact with all your other ingredients, you can confidently cook just about whatever you want, no matter if you have a recipe or not. Learn to make the basic soup bases, and let your imagination or ingredients on hand determine where you go from there! By learning the basics The Professional Chef enables you to reach farther than you ever thought before.
The Culinary Institute of America has trained the likes of Anthony Bourdain, Grant Achatz, Michael Symon, Anne Burrell, and many more. You will recognize Chef Symon as an Iron Chef from the Food Network, and Anne Burrell is currently competing for this year’s crown! Now let the Culinary Institute of America train YOU to become the best chef that you can be with their own iPad app, right in your own home.
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