We are a team made up of world-class chef educators and former culinary school executives dedicated to teaching culinary technique to our students around the world – completely online. We offer traditional, plant-based, and specialty options.
From beginner to advanced, classical to plant-based, there's a Rouxbe spot for you.
We offer hands-on, online training for culinary students, professional chefs, home cooks and everyone in between. Click a button to jump to a section or scroll at your leisure.
Cook's Roadmap
Cook's Roadmap is our "just right" starter course. Not as immersive as Professional Cook by design, it still comes with the highest level of quality content, proper guidance and personalized chef instructor feedback. Great for busy parents, holistic nutritionists, hosts, retirees, and even those toying with the idea of a food truck or catering business. Get more out of your time in the kitchen with this affordable and certified course.
- For beginner-to-intermediate levels
- Earn 52 CEHs from the Association of Nutrition and Foodservice Professionals
- Pairs well with Seafood Literacy course and Jacques Pepin Techniques course
- Financing, or gift cards available
Professional Cook
Our most immersive classical cooking course to-date where you'll learn just about everything, soup-to-nuts, to cook like or in a professional kitchen. Including food photography! Current chefs, sous chefs, restaurant managers, and other culinary professionals wanting certifications and/or refreshers from industry-leading instructors need enroll for professional development. Also superb for those wanting to dive deep into the world of culinary training.
- For intermediate-to-advanced levels
- Earn 215 CEHs from the Association of Nutrition and Foodservice Professionals
- Earn 9 college credits from American Council on Education
- Monthly subscription, financing, or gift cards available
Seafood Literacy
Rouxbe Chef Instructor Barton Seaver, one of the world’s leading sustainable seafood experts and educators, helps you understand how to source, prepare, cook and serve from sea to plate. Build the confidence and competence to take full advantage of all the unique qualities that fish, shellfish, and sea greens have to offer. Developed in partnership with James Beard Smart Catch Foundation and NOAA (fish watch.gov).
- For intermediate level
- Supported by generosity of Beaver Street Fisheries
- Earn 15 CEHs from the American Culinary Federation Education Foundation
- Gift cards available
Intro to Plants
Your introductory course to plant-based cooking. Designed to build confidence starting with a focus on core cooking techniques followed by plant-based approaches like steaming, substitutions and more. If you're interested in learning more about a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle, this is the online cooking course to start.
- For beginner-to-intermediate levels
- Earn 48 CEHs from the Association of Nutrition and Foodservice Professionals
- Pairs well with Essential Vegan Desserts course
- Financing, or gift cards available
Plants Professional
Developed with world-renowned plant-based chef and activist Chad Sarno, this is the most comprehensive plant-based cooking course ever created. In addition to helping plant-based home cooks, this certified online cooking course is equally well-suited for chefs looking for professional development, health and wellness coaches, life coaches, and nutritionists.
- For intermediate-to-advanced levels
- Pairs well with Essential Vegan Desserts course
- For WFPBNO, we recommend Plants Protocol (Coming Sept 2025).
- Monthly subscription, financing, or gift cards available
Essential Vegan Desserts
Transform traditional desserts with egg- and dairy-free alternatives from renowned vegan pastry chef Fran Costigan. By joining forces with Rouxbe, Fran brings her critically acclaimed Vegan Baking Boot Camp Intensive® into the online world to reach pastry enthusiasts around the globe. After learning about key equipment, ingredient selection and function, and foundational techniques, you'll graduate with a “Fran Factor."
- For beginner-to-intermediate levels
- Earn 50 CEHs from the American Culinary Federation Education Foundation
- Take as standalone course or after Plants Base course
- Financing or gift cards available
Plants Protocol
Cook your way back to health with our Plants Protocol cooking course. This is not just another plant-based cooking course. Our Plants Protocol at-home, self-paced online culinary training is designed specifically for individuals following the strictest therapeutic protocols or seeking a proven preventive lifestyle that offers more. It's great for caregivers and clinicians such as nutritionists and dietitians too. Plants Protocol is also an ACF quality program and one of a few WFPBNO cooking courses offering CEH credits upon 90-day completion.
- For beginner-to-intermediate levels
- Take as standalone course
- Earn CEHs from the American Culinary Federation Education Foundation
- Financing or gift cards available
Plants Rx
Created with The Planatrician Project, a non-profit dedicated to developing educational events, tools and resources for physicians and clinicians, this is a plant prescriptive course available for those needing to shift to or prescribe a more health-supportive diet and lifestyle. It's highly recommended for clinicians to support their patient communities and offers the ability to prescribe this whole food, plant based nutrition course. If you are a caregiver, clinician, or cook looking for a no salt, no oil option, we recommend Plants Protocol over this Plants Rx.
- For beginners
- Taught by both chef instructors and medical professionals
- Check out the Frequently Asked Questions
- Financing or gift cards available
Pastry Arts
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Rouxbe's Pastry Arts Program was developed in collaboration with the founders of The French Pastry School, Sébastien Canonne, M.O.F., and Jacquy Pfeiffer, James Beard Award-winning author, who are both recipients of the French Legion of Honour Award. This introductory course was developed with a focus on both knowledge and competency-based learning and includes dozens of assessment activities.
- For beginner-to-intermediate
- This course is approved across the industry for continuing education hours with the ACFEF
- Premium upgrade available which includes certificate of completion plus chef feedback (when compared to basic option)
- Financing or gift cards available
Bread Baking Arts
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Like The Pastry Arts program, Bread Baking Arts was developed in collaboration with the founders of The French Pastry School, Sébastien Canonne, M.O.F., and Jacquy Pfeiffer. This more in-depth course by comparison to Pastry Arts focuses on the science of quick breads, artisan breads, and breakfast pastries. Features fun recipes like doughnuts and beignets plus a unit of vegan and gluten-free baking.
- For intermediate-to-advanced
- Earn 80 CEHs from the American Culinary Federation Education Foundation
- Certification of completion available if finished within 6 mos
- Financing or gift cards available
Cake Decorating
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Another course exclusively at Rouxbe developed by the esteemed team of chef educators at The French Pastry School, this course dives into cake baking and decorating at the highest standard. From sponge cakes to buttercream piping to how to package, cut, and serve, you'll gain advanced knowledge for cake making and decorating arts. All with the support of chef instructors and Rouxbe community.
- For intermediate-to-advanced
- Earn CEHs from the American Culinary Federation Education Foundation
- Certification of completion available if finished within 6 mos
- Financing or gift cards available
Blue Zones Longevity
This is a plant-forward, longevity-laden cooking course developed directly with Dan Buettner, Blue Zones founder. The five original blue zones–the places in the world with the healthiest, longest-living populations, including Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece; and Loma Linda, California. Inspired by the Blue Zones cultures, his cookbooks, and his lifestyle, this course provides culinary foundations along with exclusive Blue Zones content from Dan.
Jacques Pepin Techniques
Jacques Pépin is the author of more than 30 cookbooks, host of 13 PBS television series, winner of numerous James Beard Awards, painter, and culinary educator. Come learn from him with exclusive content just for Rouxbe and help others learn too. 50% of proceeds goes to The Jacques Pépin Foundation which supports community kitchens that offer free life skills and culinary training to adults with high barriers to employment. For a limited time, get special pricing in honor of Jacques' 90th birthday.
Food Coach Academy
Become a coach with The Food Academy. Built upon the experience of 40+ experts from the United States, Europe, and Canada in nutrition, dietetics, the culinary arts and sciences, healthcare, taste and flavor, coaching, behavior and eating change, the Food Coach Academy's curriculum begins with mastering culinary and eating fundamentals including the essentials in building a teaching kitchen, and then advances through ten comprehensive explorations of food categories.
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