The NationwideFoodies Community Membership
Ask a chef anything about food — live, once a month, with a room full of Foodies who get it. Every video goes and stays in the portal that you get as an active member. No charge. Doors are open for 15 days only.
This is a nationwide Foodies club, chef mentorship, and a continually growing free member education library — not just cooking classes.
A year-round food and culinary experience — yours for $67 a month.
- Save time
- Save money
- Eat healthier
- Stop dreading dinner
Annual value $2,500 — yours for $67/month.
Month-to-month • Cancel anytime up to 5 working days before your month ends
- 3 years traveling the world, eating and training
- Michelin-starred kitchens in France & Thailand
- Eaten food cooked by Bocuse, Ducasse, Robuchon & Ramsay
- Founder, San Diego Foodies & Carlsbad Foodies
You're not a bad cook. You're a busy human.
Somewhere between the workday and the front door, dinner became the hardest decision of the day.
- You stand in front of an open fridge at 6:40 p.m. and see nothing — even though it's full.
- You're spending real money eating out, and you don't even feel good afterward.
- You and your partner both want dinner. Neither of you wants to start it. So it turns into a thing.
- You're cooking for one or two, and it feels like too much work for too little payoff.
- You want to eat healthier, but the label lists 14 ingredients and you recognize four of them.
- You're staring at a restaurant menu wondering what's actually worth ordering — and what wine goes with it.
- You have questions. You just don't have anybody to ask.
That last one is what this membership fixes.
Ask anything. Meet everyone. Keep the answer.
Once a month we get together online. It isn't a lecture — it's a kitchen table with better lighting.
We open in the forum
Everyone together in one room. I set the table for the night — what's in season, what's worth cooking right now, and what's on your mind.
We break into small rooms
Small breakout groups, just a handful of people each, so you actually talk, actually get known, and actually make friends. This is where the community happens.
We come back for Q&A
Everyone returns to the main room and I answer your questions on the spot. No question is too basic. Nobody here is judging you.
And here's the part that compounds: every question we answer gets turned into a 15-minute video and dropped into your free learning portal. Miss the call? It's waiting for you. Forgot the answer? It's waiting for you. The library gets bigger every month you're a member.
There's no such thing as a dumb food question
If it touches food, it's fair game. Here's what Foodies actually ask:
- Cooking technique — why did it stick, why is it tough, why doesn't mine taste like hers?
- Nutrition, straight — no fads, no fear, just what actually matters.
- Food & wine pairing — what to pour, and how to pour well without overpaying.
- Reading labels — what those 14 ingredients really are, and which ones to walk away from.
- Picking produce — how to choose it fresh and know what's in season right now.
- Ordering out like a chef — what to order based on the kind of restaurant you're sitting in, and the wine to pair with it.
- Prep once, eat all week — the group support to build the habit and actually keep it.
- Cooking for one or two — without seven days of leftovers you resent.
Work all day and want a system? That's exactly the kind of question this room is built for.
What's inside your membership
Monthly Live Foodies Calls
Forum → small breakout rooms → live Q&A. Real faces, real conversation, real answers. We are a Real Nationwide Foodies Community with only so many memberships available. Join Now!
Your free learning portal
Every answer becomes a 15-minute video. Watch on your schedule — 6 a.m. or 11 p.m., your call.
Cook Alongs, online
We cook at the same time, in our own kitchens, together. If you've been feeling alone, this is the part that fixes it. Food brings us together.
Get into the cookbook
Take a recipe, change it up, make it your own — and be enrolled in the annual Chef Marian Kitchen Confident cookbook.
Build your family cookbook
Want your grandmother's recipes saved before they're gone? We'll guide you through the process and make the right introductions.
Recorded events in your portal
Events we record land in your portal — which really matters when it's a cooking class you want to run back twice.
Member discounts, always
Workshops, retreats, cruises and other events — members get a discount. Every time, not sometimes.
Invitations to San Diego events
Members in good standing get invited to our San Diego, California events. Can't make it? The recording goes in the portal.
Foodies from all over
People who care about food as much as you do, from across the country. That's the part you can't get anywhere else.
Chefs Across America
with Chef Marian and a Book
Before I was Chef Marian, I was a radio broadcaster. I'm putting that microphone back to work.
Chefs Across America is my interview series with the people behind the food — and members are part of it. You nominate the chefs you want to hear from, here at home or anywhere in the world, and then we talk about them together.
Thirty years of walking into kitchens and asking the questions. Now you get to pick who I ask next.
If you're local, this one pays for itself
When San Diego Foodies or Carlsbad Foodies do a Restaurant Review, everyone puts down a $30 deposit to hold their seat.
Members don't. You just RSVP.
Show up, eat well, meet people, be part of the experience. Membership has its benefits.
One membership. Everything above.
Month-to-month. No contract, no lock-in, no games.
Nationwide Foodies Community Membership
- Monthly live call — forum, small breakout rooms, live Q&A
- Ask anything: cooking, nutrition, wine pairing, labels, produce, ordering out, weekly prep
- Free learning portal — every answer becomes a 15-minute video
- Online Cook Alongs with the group
- Chefs Across America — nominate the chefs you want interviewed
- Enrollment in the annual Chef Marian Kitchen Confident cookbook
- Guidance and introductions for building your own family cookbook
- Recorded events and cooking classes added to your portal
- Member discounts on workshops, retreats and cruises
- Invitations to San Diego events for members in good standing
- San Diego & Carlsbad locals: RSVP free to Restaurant Reviews — no $30 deposit
Cancel anytime up to 5 working days before your month ends.
No lock-in. Ever.
This is month-to-month. Cancel up to five working days before your month ends, anytime you like — no phone call, no guilt trip, no "let me transfer you to retention." I'd rather you stay because it's working than because you're stuck.
Hi — I'm Chef Marian
For more than three decades, people have been calling me Chef Marian. Before that, I was on the radio. I've cooked for events, taught kids aging out of the foster care system how to hold a knife and pick a peach, fed people at Thanksgiving who had nowhere else to go, and built companies from nothing more than an idea and a lot of nerve.
These days I'm a culinary entrepreneur, author, and host running local culinary programs and community food initiatives — plus the one behind the food content, online masterclasses, and community programs you're looking at right now, all built on techniques anyone can pull off and flavor profiles that taste like you knew exactly what you were doing.
In between, I spent three years circling the globe — eating my way through Michelin-starred dining rooms and then talking my way into their kitchens, training and getting certified wherever they'd let me. France. Thailand. Lots of fun and learning eating food cooked by Paul Bocuse, Alain Ducasse, Joël Robuchon and Gordon Ramsay.
Which is a polite way of saying I've already made the mistakes — in far better kitchens than mine. You just get the shortcuts.
What I've learned is this: food isn't really about food. It's about whether you feel capable at the end of a long day. It's about whether the person you live with is glad you're both in the kitchen. It's about walking into a market and knowing exactly what you're looking at.
I don't just give you recipes. I give you perspective, confidence, and a solution.
That's what this membership is. Not another course you'll never finish — a chef you can actually ask.
No Face Goes Un Fed℠
Your membership helps feed people in need through No Face Goes Un Fed℠ — starting in San Diego, and going nationwide from there.
You're learning to feed your family better. And you're helping feed somebody else's. That's the whole idea.
Questions I get asked
Do I have to live in San Diego?
What if I can't make the live call?
I'm not a good cook. Is this too advanced for me?
How do I cancel?
What actually goes into the learning portal?
Can I really get into the cookbook?
Why does enrollment close September 30?
Food brings us together. Come sit down.
One call a month. One room full of Foodies. Every question you've been meaning to ask somebody — finally answered, and kept.
Annual value $2,500 — yours for $67/month.
Month-to-month • Cancel anytime up to 5 working days before your month ends
