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Become an Effortless Cook

in just 30 days

Food Jazz is a 30-day cooking intensive designed to make you an intuitive, effortless cook — forever. You have good taste. Food Jazz will help you unlock it so you can translate what's in your mind to your plate, without a recipe.

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Sound familiar?

Are you dissatisfied with your current food options?

You are not alone.

Meal Kits are...

📜 Too specific
🗑️ Waste packaging
😕 Don't really teach you much

Restaurant Delivery is...

💰 Expensive
👤 Impersonal
🥶 Food is cold most of the time

Home Cooking is...

😡 Overwhelming
⌛ Time consuming
🚨 Planning for recipes is stressful

Take cooking off the back burner.

You're probably here because you haven't found a way to fit cooking into your busy schedule. Maybe you've even convinced yourself that cooking isn't important.

It's not your fault.

Modern society makes it almost impossible to get your bearings in the kitchen. And before you know it, you feel like you're in too deep to ever learn.

You don't have a grandma Yoda to teach you the ways of the kitchen. In a world filled with more cookbooks, TikTok recipe tutorials, and dumpling workshops than stars in the Milky Way, it's natural that you'd give up and just order delivery again.

But it was never a time problem. You just never had someone in your corner showing you how to think in the kitchen.

There is a better way.

Food Jazz is the fundamental cooking education everyone needs — the easiest way to make sense of the madness and take back control of your diet. You deserve to eat well. And it doesn't need to be hard, stressful, or time consuming.

Three types of cooks.

The Planner

You can make a tasty meal, but it takes hours of planning and if something is slightly off or you're missing an ingredient, you have a panic attack.

The Opportunist

You find things to eat, but it's never really what you want. Sometimes you come up with combinations that are... disgusting.

Future you

Intuitive

You're in flow. You can make complicated dishes in a breeze. Stress-free, quick substitutions, and every dish works out. Open the fridge, see what's there, make something great.

The accountability you've been missing.

Maybe you've tried cooking before. But, time and time again, you fall off. Something comes up. What starts off exciting becomes too difficult. And before you know it, you're back to eating instant ramen and DoorDash.

But this is because there was no accountability. You tried to start cooking on your own, almost doomed from the beginning.

Food Jazz solves that problem. You learn alongside other cooks just like you, all with the same goal: to start cooking consistently. This creates accountability unlike anything you've ever experienced.

Food Jazz cohort cooking together on Zoom

Save Time and Money

Maybe finances are tight or you're trying to save up for something important to you. Studies have shown that the potential annual savings from increased home cooking can be upwards of $4,000+ a year for many individuals. You could buy a trained riding pony with that kinda spare cash!

Impress Your Community

Let's face it, we all know being a great cook is sexy. Maybe you're looking for love or trying to relate to your cool friends or trying to take something off your spouse's plate. Cooking can serve as the glue that holds together your relationships. A 2020 study published in the Journal of Positive Psychology found that families who cooked and ate together more often reported greater feelings of closeness and better family functioning.

Eat Exactly What Your Body Needs

Maybe you can't find options to cater your exact diet and feel like you have to settle often. Having the skills to efficiently cook a meal you want will unlock a greater sense of wellbeing and somatic connection. Research from a comprehensive study from the University of Washington in 2015 found that people who cooked at home 3 times per week showed meaningful reductions in body fat and improved insulin metrics compared to those who cooked less.

Your Cooking Mentor

Startup Founder · Neuroscientist · Cooking Coach

Hey, I'm Akshay.

I help busy professionals learn to cook effortlessly and intuitively.

I raised $3M to build a marketplace for home-based restaurants and helped 300+ people transform their home kitchens into businesses. I've staged at Chez Panisse, hosted hundreds of pop-up dinners, and cooked whole lambs over open fire for crowds across the Bay.

Cooking has been a part of my life since I was a child. For me, food is more than fuel. Memories are created over the warmth and aroma of a homemade meal.

Now I want to bring that same joy into your kitchen. I'm on a mission to help 20,000 people finally learn to cook by 2030.

Hanging out with David Chang talking about the future of home cooking — The Next Thing You Eat, Ep. 3, Hulu

No more DoorDash.

No more HelloFresh.

No more CookUnity.

Just the zen of creative self-sufficiency.

Host a dinner party without breaking a sweat
Open the fridge and make something great
Walk through any grocery store with a plan in your head
Cook dinner faster than delivery arrives
Taste something at a restaurant and recreate it at home
Feed your people something you're proud of

Take learning to cook off your plate.

New connections, new confidence, new dinner parties. The simple habit that changes the trajectory of your life.

What is in store

Everything you need to build a lasting cooking habit — not just for 30 days, but for life.

7 live 60-minute virtual dinner party sessions with curriculum review, Q&A, and personalized feedback with fellow students.

Guided walkthrough to help you build a daily cooking habit and learn mastery of fundamental cooking methods and common flavor patterns.

14-module audio curriculum for learning at your own pace without taking time out of your busy day, with lifetime access to all recordings.

Templates and frameworks to help you stock your kitchen for success, quickly come up with ideas, and become more effortless in the kitchen.

Private community of fellow food jazzers — online channels for different topics, platforms, and geographies, plus access to invite-only local jazz dinner parties.

Leave with a consistent cooking habit, confidence in the kitchen, a healthy lifestyle, and a stronger grasp of the fundamentals of intuitive cooking.

Lifetime access to session recordings with detailed show notes, resources, and transcripts.

Bonus: Free access to recordings from all previous Food Jazz cohorts.

Bonus: Free Food Jazz AI cooking idea generator, Ratio Cheatsheet, and Kitchen Stocking Blueprint.

Bonus: Free copy of The Fake Cook — the last cookbook you will ever need. When it is released.

Guarantee: 100%, no-questions-asked refund & rollover policy if you complete the course materials and find the course isn't for you within 14 days of starting.

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Seven Tenets of Food Jazz

These aren't rules. They're the mental shifts that make everything else click.

Food is meant to be shared. Cooking is a means of connection, therapy, self care, and love. Your mindset is the first step to liberation through easeful intuitive cooking.

Recipes are not prescriptive. It's more important to recreate the flavors than the precise procedures or ingredients.

Resourcefulness and adaptability are key. This may involve using leftovers, incorporating seasonal produce, or finding creative uses for ingredients that might otherwise go to waste.

Surround yourself with inspiration. Spices, sauces, and toppings to transform your raw ingredients — this provides the framework for you to improvise within.

Navigate the world with your tongue. The best way to learn is with your own senses — practice active tasting when you eat out, watch people cook, especially your grandma.

There is no right answer, just your answers. Cook what you and your people think tastes good.

The perfect meal creates a balance of flavors throughout.

100% Refund and Rollover Policy

I want your Food Jazz investment to be 100% risk free. If you complete the course materials and find the course isn't for you within 14 days of starting, I will refund 100% of your investment.

And if you find after enrolling that your schedule is busier than you thought, we will roll you forward into a future cohort at zero additional cost.

However, part of what makes Food Jazz work is the financial accountability. If you do not engage with the course materials or fail to take action during the course, this does not qualify for a refund.

One last thing...

If you're down here, you might be thinking — is this really worth it? And sure, you could go and stitch together all of the glorious free content across the vast internet. And eventually you will learn to cook and begin to understand the fundamentals.

But I'm guessing that if you're on this page, and you've read this far, you've tried something like this before. And the results... well... they're not what you've been hoping for.

I've been in your shoes. It's taken me two decades to get to where I am. I'm here before you after years of musing and consolidating my thinking to say — there is a better way.

You are 30 days away from creative culinary independence.

Let this be the year for new connections, friendships, and dinner parties. A year where you finally take control of your diet and get to feel great eating exactly what you want, all the time. Cooking will be the simple habit that changes the trajectory of your life. And it can all start right here, right now.

So, what do you say?