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Sure it does. https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Chef-Culinary-Institute-America/dp/0764557343/ref=pd_sim_b_5 https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Chef-Culinary

Sure it does. https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Chef-Culinary-Institute-America/dp/0764557343/ref=pd_sim_b_5 https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Chef-Culinary-Institute-... Would be useful for any home cook (I have it in my kitchen)

inferiorhuman 3y ago
The CIA has a huge blind spot for non-European food. Check out the Chinese Cooking Demystified youtube channel. They did a video on the CIA's laughably bad mapo tofu recipe. It was bad enough that simply following the instructions got their neighbors up in arms.
- salawat 3y ago
  ...The world, for just a moment, was a far more interesting place. Then the realization that no, the Central Intelligence Agency does not have a crack division of crypto-culinary experts in the midst of a cold war, attempting to thwart or coordinate psyops in which they sabotage other nations morale through spreading deliberate, yet subtly disasterous cooking advice.
  - inferiorhuman 3y ago
    Yeah, they use vacuum cleaner salesmen instead.
  - ubercore 3y ago
    Thailand's culinary diplomacy program isn't _too_ far off
  - madcaptenor 3y ago
    My kid goes to a camp that abbreviates its name as CIA (the C stands for Camp and the IA are the initials of some old rich guy) and it always throws me.
  - jcranmer 3y ago
    I imagined it as them needing to have experienced chefs on hand to teach ethnic cuisine skills, so that deep-cover spies wouldn't be unmasked by their inability to make the local cuisine.
- ubercore 3y ago
  That book is way more useful for techniques than the recipes in it. I wouldn't dream of trying their mapo tofu!
  - inferiorhuman 3y ago
    Pretty much everything from the technique to the details were pretty far off the mark. It was pretty cringeworthy to watch.
    - ubercore 3y ago
      I meant the techniques portion of the book, not techniques for the Mapo Tofu.
      - inferiorhuman 3y ago
        Sure, but the non-European techniques are way off. Look at how they tell you to stir fry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AujuLHK3hvs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AujuLHK3hvs
paulette449 3y ago
Ninth edition is the latest (published 2011): https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Chef-Culinary-Institute-America/dp/0470421355/ https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Chef-Culinary-Institute-...

inferiorhuman 3y ago

The CIA has a huge blind spot for non-European food. Check out the Chinese Cooking Demystified youtube channel. They did a video on the CIA's laughably bad mapo tofu recipe. It was bad enough that simply following the instructions got their neighbors up in arms.

salawat 3y ago
...The world, for just a moment, was a far more interesting place. Then the realization that no, the Central Intelligence Agency does not have a crack division of crypto-culinary experts in the midst of a cold war, attempting to thwart or coordinate psyops in which they sabotage other nations morale through spreading deliberate, yet subtly disasterous cooking advice.
- inferiorhuman 3y ago
  Yeah, they use vacuum cleaner salesmen instead.
- ubercore 3y ago
  Thailand's culinary diplomacy program isn't _too_ far off
- madcaptenor 3y ago
  My kid goes to a camp that abbreviates its name as CIA (the C stands for Camp and the IA are the initials of some old rich guy) and it always throws me.
- jcranmer 3y ago
  I imagined it as them needing to have experienced chefs on hand to teach ethnic cuisine skills, so that deep-cover spies wouldn't be unmasked by their inability to make the local cuisine.
ubercore 3y ago
That book is way more useful for techniques than the recipes in it. I wouldn't dream of trying their mapo tofu!
- inferiorhuman 3y ago
  Pretty much everything from the technique to the details were pretty far off the mark. It was pretty cringeworthy to watch.
  - ubercore 3y ago
    I meant the techniques portion of the book, not techniques for the Mapo Tofu.
    - inferiorhuman 3y ago
      Sure, but the non-European techniques are way off. Look at how they tell you to stir fry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AujuLHK3hvs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AujuLHK3hvs

paulette449 3y ago

Ninth edition is the latest (published 2011): https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Chef-Culinary-Institute-America/dp/0470421355/ https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Chef-Culinary-Institute-...