The Dictionary of Modern Herbalism or Non Commercial Food Service Managers Handbook

The Dictionary of Modern Herbalism: The Complete Guide to Herbs & Herbal Therapy

Author: Simon Y Mills

•An indispensible guide to the herbal remedies most used in the Anglo-American and European traditions.
• Defines each remedy in terms of its main pharmacological actions and usual therapeutic applications.
•A useful reference to the application of traditional medicines for modern health problems, for both professional and lay use.
• SIMON MILLS is President and Director of Research of The National Institute of Medical Herbalists, and he runs a private medical herbal practice in Devonshire, England.

New interesting book:

Non-Commercial Food Service Manager's Handbook: A Complete Guide for Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Military, Prisons, Schools, and Churches

Author: Douglas Robert Brown

Finally, the non-commercial food service director has a comprehensive manual to aid them in their day-to-day operations. This massive 600-page new book will show you step by step how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful food service operation. The author has left no stone unturned. The book's 19 chapters cover the entire process from startup to ongoing management in an easy-to-understand way, pointing out methods to increase your chances of success, and showing how to avoid many common mistakes. The new companion CD-ROM contains all the forms in the book in PDF format. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through basic cost-control systems, menu planning, sample floor plans and diagrams, successful kitchen management, equipment layout and planning, food safety and HACCP, dietary considerations, special patient/client needs, learn how to set up computer systems to save time and money, learn how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff, manage and train employees, accounting and bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting and profit planning development, as well as thousands of great tips and useful guidelines. The extensive resource guide details over 7,000 suppliers to the industry; this directory could be a separate book on its own. This covers everything for which many companies pay consultants thousands of dollars.