The Rouxde Cooking School Podcast

John and Rebecca pay respect to the greatest modern Thanksgiving side dish recipe ever created: Green Bean Casserole. We travel back to 1955 and talk about how badass recipe innovator, Dorcas Reilly, changes the Thanksgiving side game forever. We talk about her life and some of her other great recipes.  Then we shift gears from the greatest Thanksgiving side dish to the worst side dishes ever inve...

John and Rebecca go for round 2 on their care package from England. First they start off with a Halloween wrap up. The tricks, treats and the sadness of how the spooky season is now over (and they rant about how it should be longer). They try some great snacks (roast beef and onion potato chips) and some not-so-great junk (pickled onion potato chips). Thanks again to JJ for sending us such a packe...

John and a newly married Rebecca get a surprise package from a friend living in England. After a round up of Rebecca's beautiful weeding to Kate we dive into our British bundle of love. This package is filled with a bunch of crisps, biscuits, gummies and chocolate bars (with some Marmite thrown in). So what were they to do but having a tasting party? From Worcestershire sauce flavored crisps to a...

John and Rebecca answer listener questions this week. No question is too complicated or downright stupid for us to answer. We cover a wide variety of topics that we hope you will enjoy. Thanks to everyone for submitting your Qs so we could give you As. Cheers!

John and Rebecca continue their decent into pizza madness this week. We start with a history of pizza in the USA and talk about what our favorite pizza toppings are. We then cover basically every type of pizza you can find in America. It's varied and fun to see how goofy some of them are. We also talk about the largest commercial pizza available, how pizza has stopped crimes and end it with pizza...

This week John and Rebecca start their journey into the truth about pizza. We have a cozy catch up in the first half of the episode before we get into the lovely history of the pizza pie. We start at the first flat bread beginnings of pizza and then finish up right before we get to the history of pizza in America. We have to save something for next week right?   Thanks for rating and reviewing us...

This week John and Rebecca cover the professional life of the first rock star chef Marco Pierre White. From his humble beginnings in Leeds to his ascension as the most recognizable Chef in all of Britain, Marco was certainly a force to be reckoned with. We also follow his career after giving up his Michelin stars and becoming a family man and restaurateur. We end up the episode with some facts abo...

John and Rebecca go live in front of the audience at The Baltimore Podcast Festival on 9-15-18. We cover cookbooks, but not just any cookbooks. We cover the cookbooks that are so strange and bizarre it will make you think we're making them up. From cooking with Coolio to cookbooks featuring........ let's say unsavory main ingredients, this crazy collection of cookbooks will have you wondering why...

John and Rebecca are joined by Evan The Mayor From The City That Breeds Podcast to talk about Jerky. We learn how it's made, how it's packaged and how it's shopped to a very lame public.  Thanks for listening. Please rate and review us on iTunes and add us on Spotify.  Cheers!!

John and Rebecca are joined (AGAIN!!) this week by Catina Smith (AKA Chef Cat)!!!! In this episode we cover all things Chef Cat. Her current brands, the calendar she's putting together, regular work and future projects. If you want to find her on Instagram, check her out here ( https://www.instagram.com/culinary_socialite/ ).  See you next week!! Cheers!

John and Rebecca are joined this week by Catina Smith (AKA Chef Cat)!!!! In this episode we cover John's culinary journey through Pittsburgh and Rebecca's travels through Provincetown. Chef Cat talks about how much she digs the diversity of the food vendors in Baltimore.  We talk this weekend to Chef Cat even though we go through our own mess trying to remember everything.  See you next week!! Che...

John and Rebecca get basic about wine! We cover a fast history, some fun facts and finish up with a crazy and creepy tale/ creepypasta about wine that will turn your stomach. Thanks for listening and please rate and review us on iTunes and follow us on Spotify. Cheers!!!

John and Rebecca talk about grapes on this listener-suggested episode (thanks Josh!). We follow the history of the grape, digress and regress about a few topics (catching up on important issues) and then end with some fun facts about the lovely and versatile grape. Thanks for listening!!

John and Rebecca are joined this week by Karin and Bud Tiffany from Peter's Inn located in Fells Point Baltimore.  We cover a bunch of crazy topics from the dumb (the renaissance festival which John loves) to the fire that took out the original Peter's Inn and left an opening for Pete's to rise like a  culinary Phoenix.  Thanks for listening. Please rate and review us on some platform..... You kno...

John and Rebecca stuff their faces with this episode about competitive eating. We cover the history and early beginnings on Coney Island, some crazier competitions from the past, a bunch of incredible (and disgusting) competitive eating records and then we end with some terrible competition tragedies.  Thanks for listening, please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Spotify and check out ou...

This week John and...... uhhhh, actually, Rebecca is on vacation so John's 7 year old son Crosby fills in to cover one of his favorite foods: Kalamata olives! In this very short and crazy episode we find out a little bit of history about Kalamata olives, how they are made, and a few fun facts about olives. We also get a lesson on the attention span of a 7 year old boy. It's a family friendly episo...

John and Rebecca get down and dirty with this episode about pigs. Find out where they came from, how they are immigrants to the USA and how it became our favorite meat globally.  We also cover the history of the Baltimore Neighborhood of Pigtown, find out some fun facts about the pig and hear a harrowing story from John's past that should be a cautionary tale about adolescence stupidity.  Thanks f...

John and Rebecca get trendy with this episode about food trends. Forecasted at the beginning of the year these food trends are hit or miss and on this episode we talk about the hits (and many) misses. We also talk a LOT about the episode number. It's 69 btw..... get it? 69?.........Nice!

John and Rebecca get paranoid and break out the foil hats for this episode all about aluminium foil (that's right, I said aluminium). We find out about it's weird start, how it changed names and how America started pronouncing the wrong name. We finish up with some fun facts and a list of out-of-the-box ways you can use aluminium. Please rate and review us on iTunes and also please follow us on Sp...

John and Rebecca talk about snowballs this week. We talk a lot about a bunch of topics with some snowball talk sprinkled throughout the conversation. We find out the history of the snowball, some of the weirder flavors and a breakdown of what the different flavors are made of. Please rate and review us on iTunes and follow us on Spotify. Thanks!!!!

John and Rebecca pay tribute this week to the late, great Anthony Bourdain. John talks about his influence on him as a writer and cook as well as his Bourdain poster and tattoo (yep..... tattoo). We go through his personal and professional life, his best quotes and then we end it with Tony's take on dessert. This was a hard one for us but we tried to make as entertaining as we could.  If you are f...

John and Rebecca explore the life of Julia Child on this episode. We talk about Julia as a tall student to a tall spy and then into a tall obsessed culinary investigator. We follow her through her late in life career as a culinary icon and TV innovator. We end out with some fun facts. Please rate and review us on iTunes and follow us on Spotify. Thanks!!

John and Rebecca are Chopping Broccoli in this episode. We learn the brief history of broccoli and it's shockingly modern arrival. We hit up some fun facts and learn a little about a former president's childish relationship with broccoli. Thanks for listening. Please rate and review us on iTunes. Cheers!

John and Rebecca get stalky about Rhubarb. Get the low down on the history of rhubarb, it's medicinal beginnings and edible end. Then hit up some fun facts. There is a lot of poop talk and a bunch of digressions that make this the most Rouxde episode ever. Thanks for listening!! Please rate and review us on iTunes and follow us on Spotify. Cheers!

John and Rebecca get messy about Poutine. We find out about it's success story from humble road side garbage food to the high pedestal of foodie heaven. We learn about it's murky origin that no one really can pin down but yet we have a feeling about it. Then we throw around some facts about this saucy, cheesy and french fried dream. Please rate and review us on iTunes and follow us on Spotify. Tha...