The resource -- for over 65 years -- for professionals in quantity food production and foodservice management. Exceptionally comprehensive, it covers all the standards, skills, and techniques inherent in quality, quantity food production. Very contemporary in perspective, it provides a host of "new tools" for helping food professionals meet quickly-changing dining trends and satisfy the expectations of today's customer. Covers basic technical information, guidelines, and generally accepted methods of food preparation; includes over 400 fully-tested, high-quality, standardized quantity recipes for everything from main dishes to desserts -- all applicable to most types of foodservices; gives formulas for staples, guidelines for menu planning, roasting and cooking timetables, specifics of food quality standards, service requirements and table setting diagrams, wine selection guidelines, and recipe/measurement conversion tables.