Hello! I’m Jess Dang.

I believe learning to cook is the best thing you can do to nourish your health but for so many reasons, most of us just never learned how to cook.

In 2011 at the age of 30, I quit my corporate job because I was determined to change that. In early 2012 I started Cook Smarts by giving cooking lessons to home cooks from all walks of life and all levels of cooking.

Teaching helped me to see first hand the biggest challenges home cooks faced in their kitchens and all the reasons why they often avoided cooking. People were frustrated by not having proper knife skills and feeling like they were completely bound to the requirements of a recipe.

I was determined more than ever to take everything I learned to create a course that could be available to everyone, not just those who lived in the Bay Area.

So in 2014, I came up with the curriculum for Nourish. My team got busy planning, filming, coding, and designing all the materials for the course. It was such an exciting time and we launched the course in May of 2015, just 3 months before I gave birth to my daughter.

We had an amazing first class and I loved “meeting” all my students from all over the world. I hope I get to meet you soon too and learn all about why you’ve decided to join Nourish and how we can help you be successful in the kitchen.

I’d be honored to serve as your guide and your cheerleader through this journey, but first, I’d love for you to get to know me (after all, we might be spending a good amount of time in the kitchen together).

Click on the video below to learn more about my cooking journey and why I’m so excited to have you join Nourish: