Food Production Operations

"Food is one of the four basic needs in life, the other three are shelter, water and air. While you can eat many things to survive it is more enjoyable when they taste good. That exact reason is why cooking was invented. Cooking is the practice or skill of preparing food by combining, mixing, and heating ingredients. The difficulty of cooking ranges on what it is that you are cook-ing. There are many methods of cooking some of which are baking, boiling, frying, grilling, and roasting. Food production ranges from minimal processing, such as cleaning and packaging, to complicated processes involving lots of additives and ingredients.Food production processes create products with longer shelf lives than raw food ingredients. Food Production Operations is an activity of preparing food products on mass scale and all the operations pertaining to it. This book introduces you to the various ingredients and techniques of food production, an important aspect of hotel management. It includes various aspects of the kitchen and multitude of cuisines popular in hotels. Food production operations in large hotels is a mammoth enterprise that requires knowledge about the ingredients required, the methods of cooking them, and cuisine of various countries.This edition is revised thoroughly chapter by chapter basis and new chiapters are also added. Topics in this book help impart technical skills of food production to students and familiarize them with the day-to-day working atmosphere of food production department. With time, there has been a growing interest in young people to pursue careers in hospitality. A surge in the number of good hotels and developments in the field of food production operations have made it fundamental for students to develop keen understanding of food production operations."--Back cover