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  • Guide to Good Food: Nutrition and Food Preparation, 16th Edition

Guide to Good Food: Nutrition and Food Preparation, 16th Edition

• Learn to plan, shop for, and prepare nutritious meals that support lifelong wellness.
• Explore nutrition, food preparation, and global cuisines through hands-on recipes and activities.
• Build critical thinking and career-ready skills for success in food, nutrition, and beyond.

Title Overview

Title Overview

Guide to Good Food: Nutrition and Food Preparation is designed so that students can acquire the knowledge and skills needed to plan nourishing meals, shop for the ingredients, and prepare safe, wholesome food to fuel their bodies and support wellness. Using a positive approach to healthful choices, this title aims to be an inclusive guidebook on how to identify, prepare, and enjoy nourishing foods. Students will also learn about careers in the areas of food and nutrition and how to set career goals for those careers. In addition, they will learn to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills, preparing them not only to make beneficial choices for their health, but also for success in college and career.


  • A complete text reorganization using a lesson-based approach and new autogradable critical thinking questions will make the text more flexible and meets the needs of all instructors, with each chapter offering thoughtful discussion of current cultural content, including diverse global flavors and food choices, while Global Connections features highlight recipes from around the world
  • With more than 75 recipes, featuring colorful images of diverse food choices, students will learn how to bring new tasty and healthy food options to life, including new food preparation videos to reinforce concepts and break down cooking techniques featured throughout the text.
  • Addition of potential substitutions for the top nine most allergenic foods in the Guide to Good Food recipes will help students adapt recipes to account for a variety of dietary restrictions.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Unit 1 Getting Started in the Kitchen
Unit 2 Nutrition and Wellness
Unit 3 Food Management
Unit 4 Preparing Basic Foods
Unit 5 Building Upon Basic Cooking Skills
Unit 6 Food, Nutrition, and Careers

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About the Author

About the Author

Velda L. Largen was a high school home economics teacher and department head in Missouri. During her career she developed a World Foods course, which later inspired her to write the Guide to Good Food text and its supplements.

Deborah L. Bence attended Miami University where she earned a bachelor's degree in home economics education. She taught family and consumer sciences at the middle school level before turning her focus to the writing and development of instructional materials. Deborah worked as an editor for an educational publisher for almost 20 years, applying her teaching and subject matter knowledge to creating textbooks and supplements for FCS classrooms, with an emphasis on foods and nutrition. Deborah considers herself to be a lifelong learner as well as an educator. She enjoys the challenge of keeping up with new findings in the area of nutrition, trends in food marketing and preparation, and changes in the field of education. In addition to teaching students in various settings, Deborah has published a number of informative articles and other resources.

Course Content

Course Content

Guide to Good Food serves as an evidence-based source for a wide range of food and nutrition topics.

Course Content
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