Garde manger refers to the restaurant kitchen area where cold dishes, including soups, salads, sandwiches, sauces, cheeses, sausages, and pâtés, as well as hors d'oeuvres and the condiments used to garnish them, are prepared. The book Garde Manger is a teaching text for food professionals, updated from a 1973 edition by a team of chefs from the Culinary Institute of America. Home cooks, as well as students and professional cooks, will enjoy the chapters on preparing dressings, cold soups, salads, and sandwiches in this clearly, concisely written book, which is illustrated with hundreds of color photos. More serious home cooks will also appreciate the chapters that delve into making sausages, smoked foods, terrines, and other charcuterie. Here you'll learn to prepare and smoke old-fashioned, lusty French Garlic Sausage or a Pheasant Galantine enriched with pork fat and Madeira.

Intermediate cooks comfortable with terms such as chiffonade (leafy vegetables cut into very thin strips) will appreciate composed salads like simple Italian Shaved Fennel with Parmesan and heat-spiked Buffalo Chicken Salad, in addition to such soups as Cold Carrot Bisque sparked with ginger, tangy orange juice, and yogurt.

Noncooks interested in food will find Garde Manger fascinating too. How better to appreciate the Roasted Vegetable Terrine, layered with eggplant, squash, mushrooms, and goat cheese and served at your favorite restaurant, than by understanding how it is made? Home cooks who entertain will appreciate Garde Manger's recipes, as they produce quarts of sauce, gallons of soup, and canapés by the dozen. For the rest, when you can't modify the recipe, there is always the freezer. --Dana Jacobi


Book Description
With nearly 500 inspiring recipes, Garde Manger is the most comprehensive reference book available on the subject. Bringing the kitchen-tested wisdom of The Culinary Institute of America's chefs and teachers to the reader, the comprehensive book covers a range of topics, from salads and sandwiches to hors d'oeuvres and appetizers--all the hot and cold food preparation knowledge the skilled garde manger needs. All-new photographs by award-winning photographer Ben Fink show finished dishes and important techniques to help the reader visualize key concepts, from curing salmon and bacon to making and decanting flavored oils.


From the Back Cover
"The Culinary Institute of America has done it again. Both contemporary and comprehensive, this is a book no professional should be without. It should be worn-in quickly!" --Waldy Malouf Chef/Owner, Beacon Restaurant, Bar & Bakery "True to form, The Culinary Institute of America has taken the complex and somewhat elusive discipline of garde manger and presented it in a comprehensive, clear, and very usable reference that pushes the standard of learning far ahead of any other current text on the subject." --David Kellaway Executive Chef, Mandalay Bay "The practical approach of Garde Manger brings a contemporary perspective to the art and craft of the cold kitchen. It is a valuable asset to any culinarian." --Rudy Speckamp Chef/Owner, Rudy’s 2900 "Garde Manger emphasizes the true art of the cold kitchen and how it is adapted to today’s current trends in cuisine. The recipes give the chef a base to build upon and use to express his own creativity in a successful and tasteful manner." --Kenneth Juran Executive Chef, Hyatt Grand Express

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"The Culinary Institute of America has done it again. Both contemporary and comprehensive, this is a book no professional should be without. It should be worn-in quickly!" —Waldy Malouf Chef/Owner, Beacon Restaurant, Bar & Bakery

"True to form, The Culinary Institute of America has taken the complex and somewhat elusive discipline of garde manger and presented it in a comprehensive, clear, and very usable reference that pushes the standard of learning far ahead of any other current text on the subject." —David Kellaway Executive Chef, Mandalay Bay

"The practical approach of Garde Manger brings a contemporary perspective to the art and craft of the cold kitchen. It is a valuable asset to any culinarian." —Rudy Speckamp Chef/Owner, Rudy’s 2900