Every good cook should learn how to make a good roux. But first, it's worth understanding what could go wrong so you know how ...

Learning to cook is kind of like learning to read in that, once you have the foundations down, you can create just about anything. If you’ll go with this analogy, you can think of roux as a single ...

I am really, really bad at making roux. Or at least I used to be. My first experience with roux was as a child. My mom used dark roux, the oily, flavorless crap that comes from a jar, occasionally ...

There are few Cajun or Creole recipes that do not begin with the words: First you make a roux (pronounced roo). Used to flavor or thicken foods, the mixture originates in Louisiana, where cooks have ...