Rouxbe out of Vancouver, Canada offers a great online cooking school. I stumbled upon this site about a year ago and made one of their scallop recipes and it was fabulous. Since then I have made that recipe a few more times for others with many props. The instruction videos are well made, stylish, and teach you how to cook. It is not just a recipe site but a food learning experience. Here is one about knife skills as an example.
You can join their service for free, but if you want full access to their online cooking school, including personal chef support, it will cost you a little bit. For $199 though you can join for a lifetime and not have to worry about monthly fees. Rouxbe has also teamed up with Dean and DeLuca and will be offering cooking lessons through their site — though it is pretty hard to find this feature on the Dean and DeLuca site. MetroKitchen.com, another quality online kitchen store, has also teamed up with Rouxbe in the retail sphere, and Food and Wine has also noticed Rouxbe in their March 2009 issue in the Food Tech portion.
The site is really great to browse through and learn about cooking, and they also give 10% of their membership fees to feed hungry school children in developing countries.
