Cookshop Cooking Classes & Camps For Kids
Cookshop, 2625 SE 26th Avenue, Portland, OR 97202
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Cookshop Cooking Classes & Camps For Kids offers cooking classes, summer camps, No School Day Camps, after school classes, and weekend baking for kids. The program also includes Slow Food PDX Conviviums, Plates for the People events, and community run/walk/movement mornings as part of its activities.
• Ages: 5–17 years old
Cookshop was founded by Meredith Mortensen. Meredith has been the pastry chef at Carafe Bistro and a Baking and Pastry Instructor at the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Portland, and previously worked at No. 9 Park and Flour Bakery in Boston, The Home Ranch in Colorado, and Daniel Boulud Brasserie in Las Vegas. Meredith holds a BA in International Political Economy from The Colorado College and a Patisserie Diploma from Le Cordon Bleu, London, and has called Portland home for the past 19 years. Cookshop describes itself as an encouraging and supporting place for young cooks and a spot where adults gather around the kitchen island to learn to make authentic food and foster friendships. Cookshop partners with several local farms and purveyors to provide local, seasonal ingredients for classes and hosts the Fox & Bear Urban Farm CSA each summer, as well as pick ups for Dana Carey Bakes pastry subscription and the Croft Farm tomato subscription. It also hosts monthly Slow Food PDX Conviviums, Plates for the People, and community run/walk/movement mornings.
Last updated March 30, 2026.
• Ages: 5–17 years old
Cookshop was founded by Meredith Mortensen. Meredith has been the pastry chef at Carafe Bistro and a Baking and Pastry Instructor at the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Portland, and previously worked at No. 9 Park and Flour Bakery in Boston, The Home Ranch in Colorado, and Daniel Boulud Brasserie in Las Vegas. Meredith holds a BA in International Political Economy from The Colorado College and a Patisserie Diploma from Le Cordon Bleu, London, and has called Portland home for the past 19 years. Cookshop describes itself as an encouraging and supporting place for young cooks and a spot where adults gather around the kitchen island to learn to make authentic food and foster friendships. Cookshop partners with several local farms and purveyors to provide local, seasonal ingredients for classes and hosts the Fox & Bear Urban Farm CSA each summer, as well as pick ups for Dana Carey Bakes pastry subscription and the Croft Farm tomato subscription. It also hosts monthly Slow Food PDX Conviviums, Plates for the People, and community run/walk/movement mornings.
Last updated March 30, 2026.
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