With an updated iPad-compatible website, Rouxbe Cooking School now has 1,000 instructional cooking videos and recipe tips that can be viewed with any Apple iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, ensuring that cooks have access to online cooking classes in their own kitchen.
Vancouver, BC, Canada & Seattle, WA, USA, April 8, 2010 (PRESSbooth.ORG) -- Rouxbe (pronounced roo-bee) has the perfect recipe for home cooks who are hungry to improve their culinary skills. The four ingredients? Your kitchen, the Rouxbe Cooking School, an Internet connection, and the Apple iPad.
Rouxbe has just updated its video-rich website to HTML5, making its more than 1,000 high-definition, close-up instructional cooking videos viewable on any Apple device, including the iPad, the iPhone and iPod Touch. With these digital devices at their fingertips, home cooks of any level are now able to attend a professional-grade cooking school in their own kitchen and on their own schedule. iPad and iPhone users can try out the newly updated site now at http://rouxbe.com/cooking-school/ipad-iphone
Unlike standard recipe websites, Rouxbe is an online cooking school that guides home cooks of any skill level through the same curriculum and learning process used by culinary schools around the world, following a simple three-step process: learn fundamental cooking skills and techniques, practice with delicious recipes, and get feedback and support.
"Rouxbe's premium instructional cooking videos can now be delivered through Apple's iPad to kitchens everywhere. This combination will completely transform how home chefs of any level can become better and more confident cooks," said Paul Bloom, CEO of Rouxbe. "Whether learning knife skills or how to pan-fry, or creating delicious dishes like pan seared scallops, home cooks can have a virtual professional chef by their side every step of the way."
Rouxbe is also developing an iPad app, which will be released in the near future.
Rouxbe Cooking School
Launched online in July 2008, the Rouxbe Cooking School ( http://rouxbe.com/cooking-school ) has made learning to cook as easy as pie. Rouxbe's vast library of beautifully produced, high-resolution instructional cooking videos are combined into 15-minute lessons - including knife skills, stocks, sauces, eggs, beef, poultry, fish, soups, legumes, pasta, chocolate, rice and grains - so even the most time-starved home cook can learn to cook better.
These video lessons are supplemented with hundreds of edible practice exercises and delicious recipes, more than 1,000 online quiz questions, progress reporting, an active online student community, and personalized answers to questions from Rouxbe's professional chefs. The school has won rave reviews and attracted students from more than 200 countries.
"When we created Rouxbe in partnership with the Northwest Culinary Academy, we believed well-scripted videos could be a tool of the future for any culinary learner," said Joe Girard, professional chef, co-founder and vice president of product development of Rouxbe. "Now the Rouxbe Cooking School is used in schools in the US, Canada, Great Britain and Australia. Instructors agree that Rouxbe video can teach some concepts better than a traditional demonstration, and in much less time."
Rouxbe students enjoy quick and far-reaching benefits. With every lesson, home cooks are able to build the confidence to cook and personalize any recipe, create better tasting, healthier dishes that work out every time, and spend less time planning and cooking meals. Girard added, "Ultimately, Rouxbe empowers our students to think for themselves in the kitchen and to create gourmet meals like a professional chef. They are able enjoy cooking more!"
All recipe and tip videos are free to visitors to Rouxbe.com. A Premium Membership to the complete Rouxbe Cooking School costs $15 per month or $99 per year - about the same as one evening at a traditional cooking class. Rouxbe contributes 10 percent of all membership fees to Rouxbe for Life, which has fed more than 100,000 hungry children in developing countries. Rouxbe cooking school information can be found on their website, http://rouxbe.com/membership
To get a taste of the school and experience three free video lessons, simply visit
http://www.rouxbe.com
Bon appétit!
About Rouxbe:
Rouxbe (roo-bee) is the world's first-ever online cooking school. Unlike standard recipe websites, Rouxbe guides home cooks of any level through the same curriculum and learning process used by culinary schools around the world following a simple three-step process: learn fundamental cooking skills, practice with recipes, and get feedback and support. The website features 1,000 high-definition, close-up videos that teach the fundamental skills, techniques and concepts to help home cooks of any level become better and more confident cooks. Created by two professional chefs, Joe Girard and Dawn Thomas, the Vancouver B.C.-based company contributes 10 percent of all membership fees to Rouxbe for Life, which has fed more than 100,000 hungry children in developing countries.
To see what's cooking at Rouxbe, visit
http://www.rouxbe.com
Contact:
Deborah Pleva
Rouxbe
Vancouver, BC
503-250-4750
deb @ rouxbe.com
http://www.rouxbe.com
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