Improve your home cooking with these 10 (mostly free) online classes
This article rounds up ten largely free online resources to help home cooks build skills, diversify meals and learn both fundamentals and advanced techniques. Recommendations include scholarly and free course aggregators like [[Open Culture]] (featuring [[Michael Pollan]] and [[MIT]] classes), chef-led sessions such as [[Massimo Bottura]]’s Instagram "Kitchen Quarantine", beginner-focused curricula from [[Kitchn]], technique glossaries from [[BBC Food]], subscription recipe libraries like [[New York Times Cooking]], and paid-but-trial-offering schools including [[Christopher Kimball's Milk Street]] and [[America's Test Kitchen]], as well as video-driven platforms like [[Tastemade]] and interactive offerings from [[Food Network]] and extension programs such as [[Texas A&M Dinner Tonight]]. The write-up explains who each resource suits — novices, improvisers or advanced cooks — and highlights free trials, live classes and the range of cuisines and topics available.