This newly updated 5th edition, fully addresses the challenge in meal management, which is to prepare foods that meet our physical and psychological needs while also helping to achieve and maintain a healthy weight. Focused around increasingly important safety and health concerns about the food supply and nutrition in the United States, it provides an in-depth study of this broad-based management challenge. Updated information in this edition includes: extensive examination of the causes of food-borne illness and ways to help assure food safety, kitchen planning and organization, current dietary recommendations and requirements, and much more. For anyone preparing meals for home or business settings.

I. PLANNING MEALS. 1. Defining Menu Parameters. 2. Nutrition in Meal Planning. 3. Menu Planning.

II. FOOD BUYING. 4. Managing Marketing. 5. Buying Dairy Products and Substitutes. 6. Buying Protein-Rich Foods. 7. Buying Fruits and Vegetables. 8. Buying Grains and Grain Products. 9. Buying Other Foods.

III. MANAGEMENT DECISIONS. 10. Food Safety. 11. Organizing the Kitchen. 12. Time and Energy Management.

IV. SERVICE AND HOSPITALITY. 13. Setting the Table. 14. Methods of Meal Service. 15. Hospitality. 16. Special Occasions. 17. Manners in the Cultural Milieu

APPENDICES. A. Meat Carving. B. Turkey Carving. C. Nutritive Values of the Edible Parts of Food.