About Us
Stirring Up More Than Flavor
Hi! We’re the team behind The Chutney Guru — a passion-powered food venture rooted in flavor, wellness, and purpose.
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The idea began with me, Zan (hello 👋), the founder and cook behind the jars, but this is truly a joint effort. While I lead the day-to-day operations, recipe development, and production, I’m grateful to be supported by Antwan Penn, founder of Yosher 3476 Inc., who brings structure, clarity, and strength to the business and administration side of what we’re building together.
Food as Alchemy (and Love)
I’ve been cooking since I was a kid, always drawn to mixing, layering, and transforming ingredients into something greater than the sum of their parts.
Cooking, to me, is a form of alchemy — working with the elements to nourish, express, and heal. It’s art you can smell, taste, and feel.
Inspired by my Ayurvedic teachers, I started blending this ancient wisdom with my passion for food, bringing digestion-boosting, mind-balancing, joy-inducing flavor to the forefront.
A Spoonful of Awareness
Where I come from, most of the food we ate came from our garden, local farmers, or fresh home cooking. It was natural, vibrant, and full of prana — life force.
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Then I moved to the U.S., and saw a very different food landscape: processed, shelf-stable, chemically enhanced. I began noticing what happens to our health, mood, and clarity when we eat food that lacks nature’s intelligence. It wasn’t a dramatic rock-bottom story — just a steady realization: we’ve lost our connection to what nourishes us.
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That’s why this business exists. Not just to sell jars — but to restore awareness, and remind us all that food can heal, uplift, and empower when it’s prepared with intention and rooted in nature.
Who I Am
I come from a small town in Slovenia, where food still grows in gardens, not factories—and where people eat with the seasons, with intuition, and with care. That early relationship with the earth and nourishment shaped me deeply. But it wasn’t until I began practicing Transcendental Meditation that everything truly shifted. What began as a spiritual practice became a way of life. I found myself drawn to Ayurveda—not just as a philosophy, but as a rhythm, a remembering, a return to nature’s intelligence.
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While my journey has included many studies and roles, what defines me most is my belief in transformation. I’ve seen people change—quickly and profoundly—when they start eating with awareness, sleeping with rhythm, and living with intention. It’s not magic. It’s alignment. And it’s accessible to all of us.
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Working at The Raj, one of the world’s leading Ayurvedic wellness spas, I see this truth unfold daily. Food, herbs, breath, and rest—these simple tools can bring people back to themselves. And that’s what drives me.
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The Chutney Guru is my first step into the world of business, but it comes from the same place as all my work: a deep desire to heal, to educate, and to serve. Cooking is my home, my alchemy, my love language. Through chutney, I’m sharing something much bigger than a condiment—I’m offering a gateway. A starting point. A spoonful of something sacred.
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This isn’t just about food. It’s about helping people remember who they are. And if we can do that through flavor? Even better.
Who He Is
Antwan Penn is a poet, systems thinker, and the founder of Yosher 3476 Inc.—a consciousness-based enterprise devoted to sacred commerce and creative equity. Originally from Newark, NJ, his background blends spiritual practice, business innovation, and the literary arts.
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His journey with Ayurveda began through the study of Maharishi Vedic Science, deepening into a way of life rooted in daily rhythm, nourishment, and inner alignment. He met Zan during their time as dormmates in a Vastu residence—one exploring cosmic law, the other stirring herbal meals that filled the space with warmth and prana.
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Their bond was forged over silence, shared wisdom, and the taste of healing food. Years later, when Zan invited him to co-found The Chutney Guru, Antwan said yes with a full heart — because Ayurveda wasn’t just academic to him; it was personal, poetic, and alive.
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Through Yosher 3476 Inc., he helps cultivate mission-driven ventures like this one — rooted in flavor, spirit, and sacred commerce. Whether building regenerative ecosystems for artists or supporting wellness brands that uplift communities, Antwan’s work is grounded in the belief that business can be sacred, healing, and community-driven.
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And because poetry speaks where prose pauses, a stanza for their shared beginning:
In quiet dorms, we stirred milk to ghee over flame and Gandharva Veda —warm hearts, cool minds,
mixing the silence of meditation with bliss and its becoming — blissful.
Meals brewed and foraged, camping herbs for balm,
and in the nest of Mother’s arms, we found our stomachs full.
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a poem by Antwan, co-founder and poet-in-residence
Welcome to The Chutney Guru.
P.S.
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We’re just getting started—but this is only the first flame.
The Chutney Guru is a doorway, not the destination.
Behind it lives a vision much wider, wilder, and wonderfully rooted.
A story of healing, rhythm, and remembering.
Curious where it leads?