EAT BETTER - FEEL BETTER - LOOK BETTER
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Summer Cooking School
DO YOU STRUGGLE LIKE ANY OF THESE SUMMER COOKS?
SCARED?
If you don't make changes to your diet, are you afraid your health will deteriorate - if it hasn't already?
CONFUSED?
Are you uncertain where to even begin? Would it help to have a plan, a support system, and great recipes?
FRUSTRATED?
Are the healthy recipes you find online so unreliable and blah tasting that nobody wants to eat them - including you!
UNINSPIRED?
Do you prepare the same "safe" dishes over and over again, even though they bore you to tears?
If anything sounds familiar, welcome to...
THE GOOD COOKS ACADEMY
I narrowly survived a wake up call and transformed my life with the healthy-cooking habits and recipes you'll learn here.
THE GOOD COOKS ACADEMY will help you to:
Become an expert at selecting, handling, and cooking the widest variety of good-for-you vegetables for maximum flavor and nutrition.
Learn the art of cooking with whole grains like quinoa, farro, brown rice and bulgur, the key ingredients in countless healthy dishes.
Prepare delicious and heart healthy meatless meals everyone will love, whether you're a full-time vegetarian or just cutting back on meat.
Save serious money by avoiding food waste, stretching leftover ingredients, and planning great menus.
Share your healthy cooking journey and get support from an online community of like-minded cooks.
Organize your time and kitchen so cooking is more intuitive, more enjoyable, and less daunting.
A Sampling of Upcoming Courses
Our monthly courses are designed to teach healthy fundamentals, save you time and money, and promote great health - without overwhelming you!
SALAD BAR SUNDAYS
WHOLE GRAIN CLASSICS: VEGGIE BURGERS, PILAFS AND BEYOND
ROAST THIS! SIMPLE SHEET PAN DINNERS
COMFORTING VEGGIE AND WHOLE GRAIN PASTAS
More courses and topics we'll cover in The Good Cooks Academy in the coming months:
Getting Started is as Easy as 1-2-3
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"The Good Cooks Academy has changed forever the way I cook."
Jane Dough
Pricing Options
Take advantage of this special introductory pricing while you can. When we start selling these courses individually they'll be priced much higher than the options here.
FOUNDING MEMBER (YEARLY)
$120
PER YEAR
24 courses (2 per month)
Printables, cheat sheet, pdfs, and cooking guides, quizzes
Private Community Access
Live Monthly Online Events
FOUNDING MEMBER (MONTHLY)
$14
PER MONTH
24 courses (2 per month)
Cooking guides, "Vintage Ken" magazine articles, and other printables
Private Community Access
Live Monthly Online Events
Big Course #1 (August)
Big Course #2 (November)
Option to Join THE GOOD COOKS ACADEMY "Test Kitchen Team"; talk live with Ken about future course content; and collaborate on equipment testing and reviews
THE GOOD COOKS ACADEMY Postcard Club (Monthly)
1 autographed copy of Ken's Upcoming Book, THE BIG BOOK OF PIE (2020)
Who Do You Want to Be One Year From Today?
☀️ The hero of your own healthy cooking journey - more confident and more creative, a knowledgeable cook who finds joy in preparing healthy meals for loved ones?
🌧 Or someone who still feels uncertain, overwhelmed, and uninspired in the kitchen, wishing they had started on this path one year ago?
Your Membership Includes...
A Brand New Video Course Every Month
Once a month you'll receive a new video course, an entire cooking lesson designed around healthy dishes that you, your family, and friends will relish. Each one is a standalone course, and they build on the skills and techniques learned in previous lessons. These courses are self-paced, so you can watch the lessons when it's convenient for you, on any device and from anywhere. (See A Sampling of Upcoming Courses)
Regular Live Streaming Events
About once a month we'll host members-only live sessions, including cooking workshops, Q&A's, and interviews with healthy cooking experts. We encourage members of The Good Cooks Academy to be active participants in our community, and plan to cover topics our members tell us are most important to them. You can view these events on any of your devices, and if you can't attend live, the events will be archived and viewable when it's convenient for you.
Access to our Private Online Cooks Community
Our exclusive community is similar to Facebook, but without all the distractions, annoying ads, and complications. Ask Ken - or your peers - a question, post a comment or a photo, and get to know and support others on their healthy cooking journey. Studies show that group support and involvement are some of the best ways to stay on track and reach your goals.
Recipes, Quizzes, Guides, Checklists, and Other Downloadables
We supplement our video courses with bonus material to reinforce our cooking lessons and make learning more fun. Most of the bonuses are downloadable files that accompany the course; others will be emailed to you as you complete a certain lesson. And the occasional bonus will arrive in your inbox just to remind you how much we appreciate you being part of our community.
IS THE GOOD COOKS ACADEMY RIGHT FOR YOU?
To be honest, our community is NOT a good fit for everyone. It's better to find out sooner than later and avoid disappointment down the road. This will help.
Who Our Academy IS For
✅ Both new and experienced home cooks who understand that the tradeoff for delicious and healthy home cooking is a modest investment of time each week.
✅ Busy people who feel overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of cooking information and recipes online, who need someone to guide them and simplify things.
✅ Creative and curious cooks who are open to fresh ideas, new recipes and ingredients.
✅ Anyone who is motivated to get healthy, stay active, live longer to make the most of their time with loved ones.
✅ Home cooks who cringe at how much money they waste on perishable food that goes bad and gets thrown away due to lack of planning.
✅ Someone who understands, at least intuitively, the undeniable link between our health and our cooking habits.
Who Our Academy IS NOT For
❌ Someone who expects overnight results. Transitioning to a healthy new way of eating - and seeing the results - takes time and commitment.
❌ People looking for strictly keto, paleo, low-carb or any other diet prescription. We're not dietitians. We're passionate home cooks with a tried-and-true approach to healthy cooking that we're excited to share.
❌ Someone who doesn't have the patience to sit and watch a few instructional videos each months (since our monthly courses are video based.)
❌ "Shotcut cooks" - someone who only wants 5 ingredient, 5 minute recipes that depend on lots of canned and processed foods and that sort of thing.
❌ Cooks who want an "in-the-box" solution. We teach, guide and inspire you, but we don't ship you anything. You do the shopping (but we'll offer guidance there, as well.)
Frequently Asked Questions
No ads except our own, no constant selling, no pushing products because we're getting a commission. We're dedicated to teaching. What type of cook are we best for? We don't use a paint-by-numbers approach, plan all your meals, and tell you what to cook every night. So we're not really a meal planning site.
That all depends on when you join. Talk here about the importance of not being overwhelmed.
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Because we're new and hoping for a successful launch, we're keeping the cost as low as possible to attract as many cooks as possible to our community. Plus, there's bound to be a hiccup or two as we get underway, and this special introductory price is our way of thanking you in advance for your patience in case that happens.
As we do add courses to our archives, and new features to THE GOOD COOKS ACADEMY, the cost will go up. BUT IF YOU JOIN NOW, YOU'LL LOCK IN THAT PRICE FOR THAT SAME BASIC MEMBERSHIP PRICE FOR THE DURATION OF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION.
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