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Good Keuken is culinary education rooted in local agriculture.
Connect to your passion for food with cooking classes in Portland, Oregon.

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TOURS: The Authenticy of Place: Bordeaux

Step into the agricultural and culinary fabric of France with a week-long cooking class. Experience the local food culture of the Bordeaux region.

How is the lamb raised? How is it broken down? How is it cooked? Learn about the whole process of sustainable and local animal husbandry, butchery and cookery.

Join Sara Pool and explore three key regions of the northwest to learn about our wild bounty – the Oregon Coast, Mt. Hood and an urban trek through Portland.

What happens when a marketplace, supper house & bar, meat shop & deli, bakery, vermouth distillery and culinary school come together? We’ll find out together.

Get Dirty Farm Tours hits the Oregon Coast – May 18th!

There is something magical about that section of our central coast where Ben Jacobson of Jacobson Salt Co. is making (you guessed it) salt and freshly shucked JAndy oysters are calling our name.

Verdura Culinary Gardens brings the love. A gorgeous new planter filled with peppers, lettuce, runner beans and all good things to eat graces our southern wall. Just grow it!

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    Are you passionate about good food? Take your passion on vacation with culinary immersions in Portland, Oregon. Through a culinary immersion, you will experience Oregon’s rich local agriculture, farmers markets, and wineries while taking your kitchen skills to the next level with a 5 or 10 day course. Whether on a staycation or vacation, embark [...]

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    There is no place like home. The culi­nary trea­sures that rest in our regional back­yard are par to none. Come road trip with Good Keuken and tour leaders Lane Selman and Sara Pool as we connect food lovers to their farmers. Beautiful scenery included.

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    Immerse yourself in a culinary program highlighting the phenomenal ingredients of Oregon. Craft regional menus and build a solid foundation of skill inspired by the legacy of Robert Reynolds and led by Robert Hammond. Both day and evening courses are offered to fit with your schedule.

  • “Be guided by the love of enjoyment, rather than the fear of making a mistake, when things are perfect, in a way, nothing has been learned.”

    Josephine Araldo

  • “I remind them that cooking traces itself to the dirt. We telescope into a place, learn what sort of agriculture the soil supports, what evolves through the season, and who historically inhabited the place. Suddenly there is a different clarity at the moment the fire is under the skillet.”

    Robert Reynolds