Quality culinary education. Within reach.
Learn to cook better, sharpen your culinary skills and understand the business of food — wherever you are.
Education should be accessible to everyone.
You shouldn't have to spend millions of naira or dollars to learn a valuable culinary skill.
Hilda Baci Academy was created to make practical, quality culinary education accessible to anyone with the curiosity and willingness to learn.
What began in 2021 as a live online cooking class with 30 recipes has grown into a learning community of more than 25,000 students, with 180+ recipes and practical learning across cooking, food business, costing, plating, content creation and more.
Learn something useful. Then do something with it.
Whether you're starting from scratch or looking to sharpen skills you already have, there's always room to become better.
Cooking
Build confidence in the kitchen and learn recipes and techniques you can actually use.
Food business
Learn the practical side of turning your culinary skills into a business.
Costing & pricing
Understand your numbers, price properly and make better decisions for your business.
Plating & presentation
Learn how to make your food look as good as it tastes.
Content creation & editing
Develop practical creative skills for telling stories, building an audience and creating opportunities around food.
You don't have to be an expert to belong here.
Wherever you're starting from, the Academy is built to meet you there.
- 01You could be learning to cook for the first time.
- 02You could be a home cook who wants to get better.
- 03You could be a chef, caterer or restaurant owner looking to sharpen your craft.
- 04You could be building a food business and need to understand the numbers behind it.
- 05Or you could simply want to develop a new skill around food and content.
Practical learning for the real world.
We believe learning should do more than give you information.
It should give you something you can use.
That's why our programmes are built around practical skills and taught by experienced facilitators with real-world knowledge — people who have actually done the work they're teaching.
Quality culinary education shouldn't be reserved for people who can afford traditional institutions.
Learn skills you can apply in your everyday life, career or business.
Knowledge becomes more powerful when it gives you the confidence and ability to create something of your own.
What you learn can change what becomes possible.
For us, education doesn't end with a certificate.
Over the years, Hilda Baci Academy has awarded millions of naira in grants and prizes to students. With the support of partners including Truck Central, three students have received fully fitted 40-foot food trucks — opportunities that have helped recipients go on to build their own food businesses.
Because the real measure of learning isn't simply whether someone can say, “I learnt something.”
It's what they can do with it.
25,000+ people have already started learning.
Since 2021, students from Nigeria and around the world have joined the Academy to learn new skills, improve existing ones and explore what those skills could make possible.
See what our students sayTake Nigerian food to the world.
We want to train more than one million people and make Nigerian food and recipes accessible to people around the world.
It should travel. It should be learned, cooked and enjoyed by people everywhere.
Because Nigerian food shouldn't only be experienced in Nigeria. And the more people who have the knowledge and opportunity to build something with their skills, the further that vision can go.
There's always something new to learn.
Whether you're looking to learn a skill, improve what you already know or take the next step towards building something of your own, there's a place for you here.
Join the next cohort