Rouxde (pronounced Rude) Cooking School is a food history and cooking comedy podcast. Food writer and cook John Houser III talks food history, cooking and interviews Chefs and food professionals about what it's like in the industry. It's funny, irreverent and informative.
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,…
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 ra…
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 …
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 eve…
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 typ…
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…
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 Bri…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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 incredibl…
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 …
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 h…
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…
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 …
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 …