Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Rouxbe School



Those of you who know me well, know that I love food and I love to cook.
Though my quarter-annual posts on my food blog are a poor representation, it is by far my greatest passion.

In college for my senior capstone, I got to develop a product for a company called Lehi Roller Mills. I also worked on several other product development teams for competitions as well as a group that developed some of the church welfare products. I loved it so much that when we moved to San Diego 2 years ago, I seriously looked into going to culinary school. Culinary school paired with my degree in food science is what many people do who go on to develop recipes for large companies, magazines, etc. My dream job! I toured the school and had a start day picked out until I found a job where I thought I would get to use my food science skills from college. My job (described here) turned out to be a lot more operations that developing recipes - but I did get to work on food related things!
The other day my sister-in-law sent me a link for the most amazing groupon for the Rouxbe Cooking School. If you don't know what the Rouxbe School is check it out here. Watch the instructional video on pan frying and you will see why I'm totally obsessed. I love the scientific angle they take on explaining everything. Right up my food science ally. I got a year subscription for $100 for Mother's Day. Best gift ever! Gift to myself? Absolutely. Don't worry Nate also got me a new Chef's knife...

I think I might go to culinary school one day, but for now I can learn like I'm in cooking school - without having to fork out $20,000 for admissions ;)

3 comments:

Brett and Sydnie said...

Thats so cool Erin! Looks awesome!

Designing Woman said...

That's awesome Erin, I just recently discovered your love of cooking. It makes sense since everything you make is delicious!

Taylor @ Drinking From Jars said...

I had no idea you loved food so much! Did I know that? I am so happy you bought that groupon. I love when people buy themselves gifts, I always do and tell myself they are from Dane. Haha! I love cooking too- it is so relaxing and wonderful. I am even a part of a food blog myself. You should check it out! Phabulife.com. I am doing it with Danes mom who has to be a on very specific diet for health reasons. It is so fun finding creative ways to be healthy. Also- I was reading my journal from the dorms and I had a whole page about how much I love you! Made me sad I haven't kept in better contact. I sure love and admire you.