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I enjoyed the Rouxbe Ultimate Cooking Course. What would be the next Rouxbe Plant Based course you would recommend?

Ask Me Anything (Office Half Hour)

Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Half Hour)

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This event was on September 30, 2025

Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to course-specific questions, to how to turn your cooking passion into profit or simply hearing the perspective of a professional chef, Chef Dan is ready to answer them all.

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Question

Eugene Johnson

I enjoyed the Rouxbe Ultimate Cooking Course. What would be the next Rouxbe Plant Based course you would recommend?

Answer

So the ultimate cooking course, I would probably go for the plant-based pro, uh, course to tell you the truth. Um, that is a very extensive, oh, I see your next question here. Actually, it mentions plant-based pro. So, uh, let me get to this question too. In my cooking classes and presentations, I mentioned that most of my plant-based cooking comes from Rouxbe's plant-based online course. So I think you're talking about the the plant-based pro, but I'm not a hundred percent sure. We have a number of different plant-based courses. Uh, we used to do the Forks over knives one, we also have a plants protocol course, which is cooking for health. Um, and we have, uh, a vegan essential desserts course, which is fantastic, uh, taught by Fran. Um, and then we also have the, uh, pro, um, the pro plant class, which is, um, kind of a higher elevation and I think that's probably the one that you're looking to do next after these. If not, it might be essential vegan desserts in those. So those are, um, probably the best examples that I would say to be able to go into.

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

*Dan Marek* is a chef educator who has been teaching vegan and vegetarian cooking for over 15 years. At Rouxbe, he is our Director of Plant-Based Culinary and Development where he helps develop content, classes and builds courses for many of our partners. Dan is a board member of Slow Food Austin, the Institute of Child Nutrition, and Conscious Capitalism. He has earned his BA in Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and holds certificates in Nutrition from Cornell University. Prior to his role with Rouxbe, Dan worked with Whole Kids Foundation training teachers and food service at schools across the country on nutrition and culinary best practices. He also worked as a Healthy Eating Educator at Whole Foods Market’s flagship store in Austin, TX, was a personal chef for some of Austin’s elite business people, taught classes in culinary techniques at Austin Community College, The Natural Epicurean, and Le Cordon Bleu. Dan also regularly volunteers cooking or speaking about nutrition for the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Marathon Kids, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, and the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin and Central Texas.