Food for Today

by Helen Kowtaluk and Alice Orphanos Kopan

Book Overview

This leading program goes beyond the basics of nutrition, consumer skills, and food preparation to include current coverage of Food Science, Global Foods, Safety, Wellness, and more. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0078462924
• ISBN13: 9780078462924
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.3" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

a great text

I found this to be a good introductory textbook for a middle/high school age food and nutrition class. The text covers a wide range of topics related to food. One finds chapters on healthy eating and lifestyle, being a vegitarian, how to design a kitchen, and food profiles from around the world. Other chapters even discuss eating etiquette, buying food, and careers in food. The text starts with the basics (this is a whisk...) for the kitchen and for food. One is given profiles of food, nutritional information, and cooking ideas. While it may seem too basic for students who have some knowledge of cooking, it does a good job of introducing it to those who have to knowledge of it at all. The writing is informative and easy to read. The text is well illustrated with bright drawings and photographs that expand on the written content. I enjoyed the recipes that were chosen for each chapter - they looked fun and doable. In all, this is a well balanced text that fulfills its purpose of presenting food for today.