--- product_id: 323483 title: "The Professional Chef" price: "£7.55" currency: GBP in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/323483-the-professional-chef store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # The Professional Chef **Price:** £7.55 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Professional Chef - **How much does it cost?** £7.55 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/323483-the-professional-chef) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Professional Chef is among the best-selling titles in Wiley's cooking program and represents the cornerstone book in our publishing partnership with the CIA. We have completely reorganized this book to reflect the way that people cook in the kitchen today, with the best of foods and flavors from around the world. The book reviews ingredients, equipment, and skills of the professional chef. It then explores the techniques for the full range of food items: vegetables, potatoes, grains, legumes, pasta, meats, fish and seafood, poultry, eggs, fruits, soups, sauces, quickbreads and cakes, yeast breads, and more. The new edition features information on global cuisines, an all-new chapter on Plated Desserts, and information on topics of growing importance such as sous vide cooking, seasonality, and sustainability. The new edition features a new user-friendly design and structure, guiding readers through the basic principles behind each technique at a glance, and then providing more in-depth information along with step-by-step photography. Complete with hundreds of recipes and four-color photographs throughout, this is the essential reference for any aspiring chef, culinary student, or cooking enthusiast. For the first time ever, The Professional Chef is also available as a revolutionary interactive iPad edition (978-1-118-12012-5). Review: Know what you are buying…a textbook that builds on skills - This is a wonderful book IF you understand what you are getting: the Culinary Institute of America’s textbook. If you are looking for a cookbook this book can frustrate you by requiring one, two or three prior recipes to complete the one you are interested in. Why would it do this? Skill building. Learning by building knowledge a few bricks at a time. This is a book about learning. This is perhaps best described as a passionate lifelong cook’s knowledge reservoir book not a cookbook. When I was in college, fresh off a Texas farm, I was going crazy in an apartment with nothing to do with my hands! I was my farmer father’s fabricator. I built things. My brother was and is the farmer-mechanic. I bought a guided tutorial on cooking in my first semester I loved it! It taught me to build successively more complex dishes and meals. That is what this book does! If you do not have the drive to use your hands and learn through trial and error? Ummm, ya’ may want to find a cookbook. This is a book that requires some commitment to diving in and learning over a significant mount of time. Now as a retiree who unexpectedly is a house husband to his wife? Well, I love this book!! Oh, I also now intimately, experientially know what my mother’s statement, “A woman’s work is never done!” means. WOW! I was an idiot kid….. Review: You will never need another cookbook. - I am an avid and fairly accomplished home cook. I learned about this book in a cooking class when the teacher brought it to show some of the illustrations. It looked good so I sent for my own copy. Wow! Am I glad I did. This very heavy (1200+ pages) book might require assistance to carry around but you will never need another cookbook to answer all your questions. The Professional Chef is the go to reference for all things culinary from filleting fish to making bread, pastries and desserts and everything in between. Cooking theory is explained in clear and understandable terms so that you know why certain substitutions work better than others and why certain ratios need to be maintained for ultimate results. Any cooking technique I have ever attempted, heard of and many I have never heard of are included with detailed explanations and photos. The book is full of excellent photos of many of the processes it explains/teaches and provides step by step guidance to cooks at all levels of achievement and knowledge. The myriad of recipes it contains are extremely varied ranging from home style favorites to the ultimate gourmet level and all the classics included. I am blown away with how wonderfully thorough this book is and I know I will be using it more than all my other 500 cookbooks combined. It is a must for every serious cook's library. If you only have room at home for one cookbook, make it this one. If you need to make room, get rid of some others because The Professional Chef will cover everything the old ones did and ten times more. This book is great! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #99,662 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #30 in Professional Cooking (Books) #134 in Cooking Encyclopedias #166 in Cooking, Food & Wine Reference (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 3,307 Reviews | ## Images ![The Professional Chef - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71NsZtZD4HL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Know what you are buying…a textbook that builds on skills *by M***S on May 14, 2024* This is a wonderful book IF you understand what you are getting: the Culinary Institute of America’s textbook. If you are looking for a cookbook this book can frustrate you by requiring one, two or three prior recipes to complete the one you are interested in. Why would it do this? Skill building. Learning by building knowledge a few bricks at a time. This is a book about learning. This is perhaps best described as a passionate lifelong cook’s knowledge reservoir book not a cookbook. When I was in college, fresh off a Texas farm, I was going crazy in an apartment with nothing to do with my hands! I was my farmer father’s fabricator. I built things. My brother was and is the farmer-mechanic. I bought a guided tutorial on cooking in my first semester I loved it! It taught me to build successively more complex dishes and meals. That is what this book does! If you do not have the drive to use your hands and learn through trial and error? Ummm, ya’ may want to find a cookbook. This is a book that requires some commitment to diving in and learning over a significant mount of time. Now as a retiree who unexpectedly is a house husband to his wife? Well, I love this book!! Oh, I also now intimately, experientially know what my mother’s statement, “A woman’s work is never done!” means. WOW! I was an idiot kid….. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You will never need another cookbook. *by J***G on April 20, 2012* I am an avid and fairly accomplished home cook. I learned about this book in a cooking class when the teacher brought it to show some of the illustrations. It looked good so I sent for my own copy. Wow! Am I glad I did. This very heavy (1200+ pages) book might require assistance to carry around but you will never need another cookbook to answer all your questions. The Professional Chef is the go to reference for all things culinary from filleting fish to making bread, pastries and desserts and everything in between. Cooking theory is explained in clear and understandable terms so that you know why certain substitutions work better than others and why certain ratios need to be maintained for ultimate results. Any cooking technique I have ever attempted, heard of and many I have never heard of are included with detailed explanations and photos. The book is full of excellent photos of many of the processes it explains/teaches and provides step by step guidance to cooks at all levels of achievement and knowledge. The myriad of recipes it contains are extremely varied ranging from home style favorites to the ultimate gourmet level and all the classics included. I am blown away with how wonderfully thorough this book is and I know I will be using it more than all my other 500 cookbooks combined. It is a must for every serious cook's library. If you only have room at home for one cookbook, make it this one. If you need to make room, get rid of some others because The Professional Chef will cover everything the old ones did and ten times more. This book is great! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Was a great starting point *by A***S on July 21, 2020* I bought this book a few years ago when I was starting to work in a kitchen. I started out as a dishwasher, but was eventually moving into prep, so I got this book. My Sous Chef at the time recommended it since it is the book from CIA, where he attended back in New York. This book has recipes, but it is not the highlight of the book, so if that is what you are after then I would look elsewhere. This is a book that is used at the Harvard for culinary schools, and it covers all the basics. You will learn about all the equipment and tools you use in a professional kitchen, about basic stocks and sauces, and a bunch else. There are a few pages in the beginning that actually cover the food groups. For example it will talk about flat fish and list off different breeds, or legumes, herbs, etc and show examples. Or another example would be beef, and then it will talk about each different cut and their application. If you are a home cook who wants to up your game, or a starting our fresh cook this is a great book to go to. I still have this book on my shelf. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Professional Chef - Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking - On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/323483-the-professional-chef](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/323483-the-professional-chef) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-05-17*