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•  Cooking and Baking Tips
•  Food Ordering
•  How Much Food to Cook
•  Vegetarian Meals
•  Environmental Issues
•  Health Department Issues
•  Staff Orientation
•  Setting Up a Kitchen
•  Food and Table Presentation
•  Meal Themes
•  45 Recipe Procedure Cards
 
 
Cooking and Baking Tips
Sometimes the little tips you learn from time to time can change the outcome of an entire meal. Part of a successful meal is the timing...

Planning Menus
For a basic week-long camper session at camp you need to have well- balanced, nutritious meals. You also need color, an enticing presentation and...

Food Ordering
Hand in hand with menu planning is food ordering. This one task is the make-it-or-break-it point for every food institution, especially camps. The key to keeping food costs down is ...

How Much Food to Cook
Figuring how much food to cook, without running out or without having too much left over, is the key to a truly successful kitchen. The happy medium is to have...

Vegetarian Meals
More and more individuals and groups are changing their diets and many opt for vegetarian meals. Each cook needs to work into his or her menu and budget a vegetarian alternative...

Environmental Issues
Make a strong effort in your kitchen to contribute to the recycling programs available in your area, beginning with...

Health Department Issues
Most states require all individuals dealing with food to possess a food handlers certificate, and all operations need to be familiar with local and state food service laws...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Staff Orientation
Once you have selected your complete kitchen staff and they are on site, you can schedule a kitchen staff orientation including the five basic employee tenets...

Setting Up A Kitchen
Gearing up to run a summer session for the first time or the 20th time takes a lot of forethought and planning, especially in the camp kitchen. The kitchen is the pivotal part of a smooth-running camp...

Food And Table Presentation
Food presentation and the table it is placed on is a big part of appetite appeal. The camp kitchen needs to have just a few basic tools to help with presentation...

Meal Themes
Having a meal theme occasionally can lift spirits, improve camper and staff morale, and provide an element of fun in the thrice-a-day routine of eating in the dining hall. Meal themes range from birthday dinner to...

45 Recipes / Procedure Cards
A strong group of recipes and procedure "cards" are included in the Camp Kitchen Guidebook to assist both new and experienced cooks with step-by-step instructions for chocolate chip cookies, coffee cake, biscuits, beef stew, lasagna and much, much more...

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