Our Featured Education Partners:
Penn Foster Career School
Established in 1890, Penn Foster Career School is one of the oldest and largest distance learning institutions in the world. Students can study online, in print, or a combination of each - you decide which method best suits your learning style. Vocational training program in catering:
- Catering and Gourmet Cooking
Develop your natural talent for catering and gourmet cooking with the Penn Foster Catering and Gourmet Cooking distance learning program. Your customers, neighbors and friends will respect your skills and admire the exquisite meals you prepare and serve. Learn about: Food and beverage styles involved in catering, The gourmet kitchen and the culinary professional,
Preparing poultry, fish, game, and shellfish, Baking and pastry and more.
Penn Foster Career School is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools for high school and vocational-technical programs, and by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Penn Foster Career School is affiliated with DANTES, which qualifies U.S. military personnel for tuition reimbursement. Many Penn Foster programs are approved for U.S. Armed Forces veterans training benefits.
Penn Foster Career School offers affordable, all-inclusive pricing—among the lowest of all career schools—and 0% interest financing and customized payment plans.
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JER Group, Inc. (onlineworkshops)
In the business of distance education since 1994, JER Group, Inc. (onlineworkshops) offers over 200 online and interactive, instructor-led workshops and tutorials as well as 8 certificate programs. JER offers the following courses in culinary arts education:
- An Introduction to Food Handling, Identification, Safety and Sanitation
An overview of proper food handling while maintaining a high quality environment.
- An Introduction to Controlling Costs to Make Your Restaurant Profitable
An overview course on how to manage costs associated with running food service facilities.
- The World of Wine: How to Taste & Select a Quality Bottle of Wine
This course is designed for the novice wine drinker who wants to broaden his/her knowledge of wine.
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911 Chef Eric On line Cooking Classes
Chef Eric Arrouzé, a certified French Chef and instructor, guides you step-by-step through his online cooking classes on film. The use of Quicktime technology allows you to replay the movie, go back and forth. It gives you the time to fully understand the process and shows you how easy it is to create a French style meal.
All Recipes
Not only does Allrecipes have a lot of recipes, you'll also find a big section of cooking basics, with step-by-step instructions complete with photographs to walk you through the basic cooking methods. Learn how to cook:
- pizza crust
- fondue
- pie crust
- chicken stock
- chocolate
Also at the site you'll find a large reference area with an encyclopedia, measurement conversions, ingredient substitutions and quick charts for cooking times, yields and more.
Asia Cuisine - Video Cooking Lessons
Video Cooking Lessons at Asia Cuisine provides beautifully presented recipes with step-by-step instructions and video demonstrations. Here's a small sampling of what you can learn to cook:
- Crab Cakes with Chili and Mustard
- Beef Tenderloin with Mushrooms and Asparagus
- Curry Soup with Sticky Rice and Scallops
Barbecue'n on the Internet
Put on your apron, fire up the grill and head on over to this site for all the lessons and how-to's on barbecuing you'll ever need. If you're a beginner, they've got you covered with beginner lessons in charcoal and gas grilling. If you're already quite the chef, you'll appreciate the huge selection of tips, tricks, recipes, techniques, as well as information on spices, temperature, tools, cuts of meat, grills and specialty woods.
The Better Homes Kitchen
The Kitchen at Better Homes and Gardens brings you daily recipes, menu planners, tools and guides, as well as online video instruction in these topics:
- Canning and Freezing Classes
- Holiday Cooking Classes
- Summer Cooking Classes
ChefTalk's Education Center
The Education Center at ChefTalk.com offers how-to articles and illustrated tutorials from professional chefs in all aspects of cooking and food preparation. Here's just a few of the many topics covered:
- Infused Oils
- Understanding Olive Oil
- Knives and How to Use Them
- Learning How to Sauté
- Proper Poaching
Cook's Illustrated - How to Cook
Cook's Illustrated - How to Cook feature gives you step-by-step instructions to basic cooking techniques. You'll learn how to cut up a chicken, dice an onion, separate an egg, and much more.
Epicurious Food
Visit Epicurious Food for a large selection of cooking basics, online cooking classes, tips, recipes, cookbook reviews and more. And be sure to stop by the Technique Videos section where you can watch videos on a wide variety of topics including:
- Knife Skills
- Pasta Making
- Roasting a Turkey
- Sauces
- Pie-Making
Fabulous Foods Online Cooking School
The Online Cooking School at Fabulous Foods provides free cooking lessons and basic food preparation instruction. Learn how not to be intimidated by an artichoke, how to bone a chicken and more:
- How to deep fry a Turkey
- How to Make Great Gravy
- How to Cook a Perfect Lobster
- How to Make Bread
- Stock Making 101
You'll also find guides for setting up your kitchen, your pantry as well as a glossary of tools, techniques and ingredients. And of course, hundreds of recipes with detailed instructions.
Joy of Baking Cooking School
The Joy of Baking Online School is a new innovation in Internet technology that allows you to see cooking and baking demonstrations right on your computer. Both audio and video instruction help take the mystery out of baking so that you can produce a high quality product and enjoy yourself along the way. All of the recipes on joyofbaking.com are hand picked, fully tested and retested and include detailed information on proper techniques and ingredients. Be sure and watch "Making Chocolate Chip Cookies"!
Julia Child - Lessons with Master Chefs / PBS Online
Watch Julia Child and more than 65 master chefs in this companion site to four PBS series:
- Cooking With Master Chefs
- In Julia's Kitchen With Master Chefs
- Baking With Julia
- Cooking In Concert
Streaming video and transcripts are provided.
Land O'Lakes
Now you can learn how to make the ultimate brownie at Land O'Lakes. The new Baking Basics section offers you in-depth advice on baking ingredients, top 10 tips for successful baking, trusted baking "how-to's" and guidance on baking equipment. Visit the "Baking Features" section for virtual baking classes and tips on American favourites like brownies and cut-out cookies.
The National Turkey Federation
This site provides you with everything you always wanted to know about cooking turkey. You are offered recipes, tips and professional cooking demonstrations.
The New York Times
This is a series of cooking classes presented by The New York Times in conjunction with The French Culinary Institute. Each class includes a step-by-step recipe and video of a professional chef demonstrating cooking technique.
prochef.com
The Culinary Institute of America's prochef.com offers a number of free online educational programs including:
- The Professional Chef Discovers Contemporary Flavors with California Raisins
- A Taste of Wine
- The California Cheese Course
Here you will find ideas about ingredients, cooking techniques, and the recipes trends that are shaping the forefront of contemporary cuisine.
ThaiGrocer Cooking School
Learn to cook Thai food with online lessons at the ThaiGrocer Cooking School. Start with "Learn Thai Cooking 101" and then cook your way to the Advanced School for more in-depth lessons and recipes.
Everything But the Kitchen Sink
For more cooking tips, techniques, guides, glossaries, recipes, recipes and more recipes, visit these mega-index sites:
A Side of History
The Boston Cooking School Cook Book
The 1918 edition of the Boston Cooking-School Cook Book was decidedly innovative for its time and advocated a no-nonsense approach to cooking for the ordinary person and includes 1,849 recipes in a full-text searchable format.
The Food Timeline
In the beginning, there was . . . salt! Tracking the history and invention of food from 17,000 BC to present day, the Food Timeline is a fascinating look at food and cooking throughout history and even includes an assortment of recipes from the various eras.
Required Reading
- Fine Cooking Online - the techniques, ingredients, science and basics of fine cooking.
- Cuisine Magazine - online magazine features step-by-step recipes, cooking tips and kitchenware guides.
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Soup of the Evening . . . Beautiful Soup
There's nothing like a bowl of chicken noodle soup to cure what ails you, but how much do you really know about this fragrant broth? Grab your soup spoon and click over to this site and never again will you take soup for granted. Here's the welcome message that's waiting for you:
"For centuries, soup has been the first resort of a special dinner and the last resort of weary providers with tired vegetables and hungry children. And it's a lot more than that. Thackeray has versified on it; Queequeg has rhapsodized about it; George Santayana has waxed downright Proustian for its sake. In these pages, dear readers, I would sing a song of soup to fill your bellies and satisfy your souls."
You'll find the latest soup news, soup quotes, soup throughout history, soup and celebrities, not to mention more soup recipes than you can shake a cracker at. This is one delicious site!
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