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The French Culinary Institute

ONLINE COOKING CLASS

Learn to Cook Online

Whether you're a serious home cook or a culinary school hopeful looking to sharpen your cooking skills at home, our 10-week online cooking class will put you on the right path. Written by pro chef Andrea Rappaport and The French Culinary Institute, each lesson features up-to-date culinary tips and advice, not to mention tasty recipes. Topics include basic cooking techniques, seafood, meat and vegetable preparation, wine, and more.

To get started, choose a weekly culinary topic below. Each week features 5 manageable daily lessons. Each lesson is wholly independent, so feel free to jump around.

Need more instruction? Find a culinary school near you.

Weekly Lessons

Week 1 - Cooking Basics

Day 1 - Cooking Trends
Day 2 - Cooking Tools and Equipment
Day 3 - Let's Talk Courses

Day 4 - Principles of Plating
Day 5 - Food and Drink Pairing

Week 2 - All About Meat

Day 1 - Meat Basics
Day 2 - Cooking Chicken
Day 3 - Cooking Beef

Day 4 - Cooking Pork
Day 5 - Cooking Lamb

Week 3 - Working with Seafood

Day 1 - Preparing Fish
Day 2 - Storing Fish
Day 3 - Preparing Shellfish

Day 4 - Poaching, en Papillote
Day 5 - Preparing Raw Fish

Week 4 - Cooking Vegetables

Day 1 - Vegetable Basics
Day 2 - Preparing Leafy Greens
Day 3 - Preparing Stalks and Legumes