Rouxbe Culinary School is the world’s leading online culinary school for aspiring cooks, culinary students, those already working in the food and culinary industry or for anyone who seeks an intensive immersion in culinary skill and knowledge development.

This Culinary Foundations Level 1 course focuses on foundational and fundamental skills development and reinforcement; universal and widely adopted methods and techniques of cooking as well as recipes and activities that reinforce the same principles taught in professional culinary schools around the world.

This course is covers key knowledge and technique development in: kitchen and food safety, knife skills, stocks, moist- and dry-heat cooking methods, plating and presentation, and culinary nutrition. This course is complemented by _Culinary Foundations Level 2_, a larger complementary course that provides additional instruction in preparing specific types of foods: salads, vegetables, soups, sauces, meat, poultry, fish, breads, pastries and foods for special diets.

The course contains various types of learning activities to engage and guide participants through a learning path: pre and post quizzes, flash cards, live graded assessments, Rouxbe-graded assessments and other supportive activities.

This course offers foundational instruction in plant-based culinary arts. With a focus on the application of core techniques in the plant-based kitchen, the experience will allow you to explore and practice a variety of recipes and flavors. You will learn how to adapt familiar foods, such as stocks, sauces, dressings, dairy, and meats, and make them plant-based. You will learn about methods, substitutions, and products to help you make these adaptations. You will learn about popular topics like alternative proteins such as tofu, tempeh, and seitan, and dairy alternatives such as nut milk and cheeses. This curriculum also covers all the basics of fermentation.

Understanding how to source, prepare, cook, and serve seafood is a skill set called seafood literacy – having the confidence and competence to take full advantage of all the unique qualities that fish, shellfish, and sea greens have to offer – is a fundamental skill required for success in modern kitchens. Working to attain a high level of seafood literacy makes you more valuable as a cook and gives you the opportunity to be a leader in your kitchen.

Chef Barton Seaver partnered with Rouxbe to develop Seafood Literacy as a guide that swims you through a process of understanding seafood in all its forms. We focus that learning on how most seafood can generally be separated into categories based on its culinary personality. Breaking down seafood into culinary categories enables a cook to apply a set of general strategies about each category to dozens of specific products within that category. Culinary techniques specific to seafood cooking, such as steaming, grilling, broiling, and raw applications are explored and discussed.

To combat this startling and untenable trend in food waste, the James Beard Foundation is focused on supporting an industry-wide change in the way our nation’s restaurants value and respect our food resources. Waste Not provides technical and creative approaches to food waste, and examines the need to reduce food loss along the entire supply chain.

The WFSO Safe Food Handler course is an introduction to handling and preparing food safely. The certificate from successfully completing this course is required to work in foodservice establishments in the US.

This 2-hour, self paced course will result in a certificate demonstrating the knowledge needed to be a Safe Food Handler. In accordance to the USA-FDA Food Code 2022, this course and certificate will provide “Documentation that FOOD EMPLOYEES acknowledge that they have received training in…Proper safe food handling procedures including personal hygiene.”

The course is designed for anyone interested in working in the foodservice industry or currently working that requires documentation of training. If you have questions about this process, please contact your supervising chef at the worksite or school.