INSPIRING QUOTES

Lessons from the Original Creative Cook

Julia Child’s approach to cooking wasn't just about food, it was a philosophy for creative living. In the kitchen, you're constantly experimenting, adjusting, and trusting your instincts, a process nearly identical to that found in many other disciplines from investing to creating art.

Cooking forces you to stay present, to think with your senses, and improvise when things don’t go as planned. Cooking at home is a low-stakes, high-reward way to practice creative risk-taking. Like Julia, when we embrace a delicious mess and let go of perfection, we unlock a more playful and resilient form of creativity and one that starts on the plate but can feed every part of our lives.

And no matter what you’re doing, have some damn fun!

CREATIVITY SPOTLIGHT

The Craft & Play Behind the Flame

This week’s Creativity Spotlight is a video interview with Jaymz Buczynski, a sous chef at Durk’s BBQ in Providence, RI. Jaymz learned his trade at Johnson & Wales, one of the top culinary schools in the US.

This interview is broken into two separate videos:

• 1️⃣ The first is a Q&A style with Jaymz as we speak about his passion, inspiration and creativity.

• 2️⃣ In the second video, you’ll get to see how a professional chef handles and executes two of Kreatio’s actionable prompts spontaneously in a kitchen.

You’ll see how Jaymz embodies Child’s spirit of being fearless, embracing creativity and having fun!

Watch my video interviews with Jaymz below and below that is a newsletter-exclusive mini Q&A.

Part Ⅰ

Part Ⅱ

🔦 3 Questions For Jaymz Buczynski (A Newsletter Exclusive)

👉️ Question 1: If you could go back in your life to have one meal again which one would it be? Who was it with?

👉️ Question 2: What’s one “rule” in cooking that you love to break?

👉️ Question 3: What’s your favorite food item that comes in a wrapper?

BLINKS, THINKS & LINKS

Curiosity Candy

• A YT Shorts clip with Julia Child telling us to be a fearless cook! I think she also means, "be a fearless anything!"

• Have you been itching to start a company? Pivot careers? Or master your own field like no one else? Amazingly, this Julia Child full documentary is packed with takeaways for any discipline.

• The Science of Gastronomy. Take a free, certificate-level course online combining biology, chemistry, and sensory science. You must enroll by August 5, 2025.

ACTIONABLE PROMPTS

Fire Up Your Imagination At Home

Cooking isn’t just about feeding yourself, it’s a craft of discipline and a hands-on playground for your imagination.

These simple, at-home prompts are designed to spark creative thinking through flavor, instinct, memory, and a little bit of kitchen chaos.

• Cook with No Recipe:

  • 🥄 Pick 3–5 items and cook completely by instinct.

  • 🔕 No measurements. No Google. Just smell, taste, adjust.

  • 💡 Why? This builds decision-making and improvisational muscle.

• Color-Inspired Cooking:

  • 🎨 Choose one color (e.g., green, orange, purple)

  • 🥦 Then: Create a full dish or plate made entirely of that color.

  • 🔍 Why? It’s playful, but also makes you think differently about ingredients and harmony.

• Memory. Recreate Your Childhood Dish from Memory:

  • 🥚 Try to cook something you loved as a kid, without looking it up.

  • 💭 Why? The act of remembering + improvising links emotion, memory, and creativity.