About The Bailiwick Academy

The Bailiwick Academy turns Filipino home cooks and home bakers into confident food entrepreneurs — teaching how to make a product well, and how to cost, price…

The Bailiwick Academy exists to turn Filipino home cooks and home bakers into confident food entrepreneurs — teaching not only how to make something well, but how to cost it, price it and sell it.

Teaching Filipino food entrepreneurs since 2017. 280 classes, 31 instructors, and 8,552 students enrolled to date.

What we do

• On-demand online classes in baking, cooking, pastry and food business, taught by Filipino chefs and cake artists.
• Face-to-face business accelerators for people launching a specific product line, such as preserved foods and bottled gourmet products.
• A store selling the tools and ingredients used in the classes.
• Tools for pricing and costing, so a student can work out whether a product is actually profitable before selling it.

Marie Grace Parazo, Founder

Marie Grace Parazo started The Bailiwick Academy in 2017, leaving her night shift at a BPO and funding the school with her and her husband's savings. She cold-messaged chefs to ask them to teach; many turned her down. The school now works with more than 30 instructors.

In the press

• Rappler — [Kitchen 143] Bailiwick Academy
• Daily Tribune — Bailiwick Academy: Holistic entrepreneurial cooking
• Bilyonaryo News Channel — Founder profile: Marie Grace Parazo