Give your students an in-depth look at the exciting world of food!This edition incorporates the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans as it shows students how to select, store, prepare, and serve nutritious, appealing dishes. Each chapter includes a profile of one of the many food-related careers available. Students further investigate career and job success in two new career-related chapters and in brief Career Success features throughout.The extensive Foods of the World section has tabbed... Read full description

Give your students an in-depth look at the exciting world of food!

This edition incorporates the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans as it shows students how to select, store, prepare, and serve nutritious, appealing dishes.

Each chapter includes a profile of one of the many food-related careers available. Students further investigate career and job success in two new career-related chapters and in brief Career Success features throughout.

The extensive Foods of the World section has tabbed pages that allow students to conveniently explore the culture and cuisine of over 30 countries. Menus and recipes with step-by-step directions as well as nutritional analyses are included.

New to this edition are A Measure of Math and Teamwork in Action activities at the end of each chapter. Within the chapters are new features on the following topics

• Global Perspective
• Health and Wellness
• Food Science
• Culture and Social Studies

Workbook: Activities review culinary terminology and chapter content. The workbook also helps students apply what they have learned as they buy, prepare, and store foods. A wide variety of activities are provided for various learning styles. The text provides the information students will need to complete many of the activities. Other activities will require creative thinking and research beyond the textbook.

Teachers Edition: The Teacher s Edition places 12 types of teaching elements in the side and bottom margins that review and reinforce activities. These range from building vocabulary, math, and science skills to interdisciplinary connections, FCCLA projects, and ideas for meeting special needs.

The Instructor's Resource CD contains the following items:

• National Standards. Correlations to important standards provided in PDF.
• Instructor's Edition. A PDF version of the Instructor's Edition, with bookmarks and search capabilities.
• Answer Keys. Chapter Answer Keys in PDF format.
• Annotated Workbook. Instructor's Annotated Workbook provided in PDF format.
• Lesson Plans. Customizable daily Lesson Plans in Microsoft Word (DOCX) format.
• Reproducible Masters. Customizable daily Lesson Plans in Microsoft Word (DOCX) format.

The Instructor's Presentations for Power Point CD package contains presentations in PowerPoint format foreach of the 33 chapters, comprising over 960 slides of instructionalmaterial. The presentations are best viewed in PowerPoint 2003 or higher or in the PowerPoint Viewer. If viewed in earlier versions ofPowerPoint, they may not display properly. Also provided is a link thatallows download of the current version of PowerPoint Viewer.

System Requirements
Windows®: Intel® Pentium® II orcompatible processor, Windows® 2000/XP/7/8, 128 MB RAM (256 MB RAMrecommended), Internet Explorer® (6 or higher), allow active content,and Adobe® Reader® (free download). *Internet connection required toaccess web links and free downloads.
Macintosh®: PowerPC® G4,G5 or Intel® processor, Mac OS® X v10.X, 128 MB RAM (256 MB RAMrecommended), Safari® (2.0 or higher), allow active content, Adobe®Reader® (free download). *Internet connection required to access web

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