Your Professional Online Cooking School

Your Professional Online Cooking School

Welcome to the HOSCO Shift Online Culinary School

We're glad you could join us. At HOSCO Shift our goal is to create sustainable communities beginning with the food system and community development through job training and education. Simply put, we are committed to food justice, making food more available and affordable to people, and empowering others to grow our local food economy while providing paths to entrepreneurship through cooperative creation. We have partnered with the Rouxbe Online Cooking School to help those that want to move toward self-sufficiency in the culinary arts field. Our online program focuses on foundational culinary techniques, methods of cooking that form the basis of cuisines around the world. Rouxbe facilitates training and similar professional development programs around the world. To date, over 17,000 working cooks have used similar Rouxbe programs to develop and hone their culinary skills.

Online Course Highlights

Sample Lesson Introduction Videos

(Preview some of the video lessons in the course)

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Rouxbe Culinary School

  • Founded in 2005
  • 847,400 Students
  • 180 Countries
  • 630 High Schools
  • 17 Languages
Learning Path You Can Trust

Rouxbe courses offer an instructor-guided path that is completed entirely online, at your own pace. Whether you are looking to learn new cooking techniques, increase your confidence, expand your repertoire, or change your health, Rouxbe's learning path will help you reach your goals.

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Instructional Videos

Our learning videos are close-up featuring the cooking technique instruction you need to be successful in the kitchen. Our content includes a variety of video types such as technique focused lessons, step-by-step video recipes, and instructional videos on other topics.

Interactive Learning

Students will watch video, read text, interact with visual learning assignments, upload and share photos, interact with the learning community, submit instructor-graded assignments, attend live events with Rouxbe instructors, and even complete fun interactive quizzes.

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Your Certificate of Achievement Awaits You!

Designed and taught by leading chef educators, this program delivers detailed video instruction in the foundations of cooking. Certification through Rouxbe is a mark of achievement and an important part of showing your commitment to a professional path.

Recognized by the American Culinary Federation Education Foundation as an Approved Program.
Recognized by the World Association of Chefs Societies as a Approved Quality Culinary Training

Graduates from the Rouxbe Culinary Program, may apply using the fast track route for World Association of Chefs Societies Professional Cook (Commis Chef) or Professional Chef de Partie Certification.