Knife Shop

I am Chef Jeremy L. Hansen, founder of Forest Glen Kitchen — a chef-led project rooted in food as medicine, private dining, knife craft, foundation dinners, and the belief that food can carry meaning far beyond the plate.

My life in kitchens began young and grew into restaurants, bakeries, bars, awards, James Beard recognition, whole-animal butchery, fermentation, and a deep devotion to the craft. But the deeper story was shaped by pain, fatherhood, and the people I love most. My own experience with severe migraines first taught me that food and the body are always in conversation. Later, when my son Joshua was diagnosed with epilepsy, that lesson became personal. Food became more than art. It became care, study, service, and devotion.

Forest Glen Kitchen is the result of that journey. It brings together seasonal Pacific Northwest cooking, functional nutrition, private and charitable dinners, sharpening and knife work, pantry goods, teaching, storytelling, and a philosophy I try to live by: take the gift over the grudge. Every challenge has returned me to this work with more clarity. Every loss has sharpened the mission. Forest Glen Kitchen is not just what I am building. It is what life has been preparing me to build.