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So you’ve always wanted to learn to properly cook plant-based food, but you’ve never had the time/energy/funds. Well, now’s your chance for quarantine cooking.

Rouxbe, an online culinary school, is offering a free 30-day-trial during the COVID-19 crisis. They have a huge library of plant-based offerings including recipes by renowned vegan chef Chad Sarno.

“Rouxbe exists to help people gain more confidence in the kitchen,” says Ken Rubin, Chief Culinary Officer at Rouxbe. “We aim to teach people of all abilities to become more comfortable and cook the foods that they want to eat and should eat. Increasingly, that includes a plant-based diet.”

Rouxbe has a wide variety of skill videos for your quarantine cooking adventures ranging from learning how to cut with a chef’s knife to how to cook dried legumes. Plus a whopping 476 vegan recipes, which means you can impress your friends (when you’re allowed to see them again) with baked mac and cheese, chorizo tempeh hash, Ethiopian collard greens, chick’n and dumplings and tons of other options.

During your free trial you’ll also get access to Rouxbe’s Plant Based Cooking: An Introduction course, so you can learn all the key stuff you need to know to host epic dinner parties (viz Zoom, for now).

“For years, the number of consumers who consider themselves vegetarians or vegans has been consistently rising,” says Rubin. “According to GlobalData, there has been a 600 percent increase in people identifying as vegans over the past three years alone. But plant-based diets have much broader appeal as they look beyond the restrictions and instead focus on embracing ways to eat less meat in favor of more legumes, grains, fruits, and vegetables.”

And if you wanna take your education to the next level for quarantine cooking, you can pay for one of the more advanced courses: Professional Plant-Based Certification, Forks Over Knives, Culinary Rx, and Essential Vegan Desserts.

“Rouxbe specializes in unlocking the foundational culinary knowledge and techniques that help equip and elevate anyone who wants to cook — from the beginner home cooks to classically trained chefs who are looking for a refresher,” adds Rubin. “The videos and instructional content build upon each other so that the user has a good knowledge base before going to the next task or lesson.”

You can sign up for your free 30 days at Rouxbe.com.

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