Feed the Mass

Fantastic experience: Our team volunteered here. Well organized, clean.

Fantastic experience: Really great mission, keep doing what you're doing folks!! I'm thankful for y'all

Fantastic experience: Hi! Sandra here. (not Adriana--roommate). I took the Butter Chicken and Naan class last night with Chef Jacob Valentine and he was awesome. 6-8pm was enough time to learn a whole lot about Indian cooking. Butter Chicken is a bit of work but worth every delicious bite. and the Naan! topped w/melted butter & garlic was pure heaven....and will get me back into making yeast breads of all kinds again. One suggestion...do some prep before the class starts so you can keep up. The Chef was very helpful to us all.

Fantastic experience: I volunteered here as a meal prepper. Was a wonderful time, super fun and really uplifting to be able to help out the community! They take refused food and turn it into great prepared meals for the people of Portland. I would highly recommend helping out for a fun time and uplifting experience

Fantastic experience: Great group in the class and the dinner we made was great. Butter chicken

Fantastic experience: So much fun learning new skills at every level in a family friendly environment! Love it especially because it's a non profit and Jacobsen Valentine's a rock star

Positive experience: Very fun and easy environment! We did family night PadThai tonight for my birthday celebration and had a great time. Hands on experience and even as an experienced cook I learned a couple tips definitely recommend trying this out for date night, fun night, anytime fun experience!

Fantastic experience: My wife and I took the Sushi making class and had an awesome time! The sushi came out great and our chef, Jacobson, made it really easy and fun.

Fantastic experience: We loved the sushi class! Just the tips on using knives & cutting an avocado made it worth it. Jacob is a great teacher and very funny too!

Fantastic experience: Fabulous and fun cooking class!

Fantastic experience: Excellent team building experience. We made noodles, which was intimidating to me. Ended up tasty though!

Fantastic experience: What a great tapas class with Chef Jacob! We had a fun evening learning knife skills and making delicious dishes that I look forward to trying again at home.

Fantastic experience: Wonderful place to socialize with others, learn new recipes and cook a great meal. Highly recommended!

Fantastic experience: Chef Jacob led a wonderful class that ended with a delicious shared meal for everyone. Highly recommend to learn new cooking skills or bone up on old ones. The plates were cleaned.

Fantastic experience: Amazing instructors with a fantastic work space. Great organization. Highly recommend

Fantastic experience: Took a class tonight where we made delicious healthy food—Patatas bravas, mozarella and tomato skewers, and more. Was a great way to meet other people and learn something about basic cooking skills. Thanks!

Fantastic experience: Excellent cooking class which was a lot of fun and taught us a lot!

Fantastic experience: We had an incredible night learning how to make pasta and marinara sauce from scratch. We were singing along to the tunes, laughing out loud after each “wow” moment, and having fun as we went through the cooking process. Kudos to the folks who run, support, and volunteer for this wonderful organization. Much thanks to Chef Jacob and Holly for facilitating such an awesome night. Will do this again in a heartbeat!

Fantastic experience: An awesome evening! We came as a work group. Perfect for team building and a great time. Chef Jacob guided us through prepping a great pasta meal with humor, songs, and learning valuable new skills. Anyone with any skill level will be able to join in on making the food a huge success. I will be back with friends and family. I highly recommend this experience for everyone. And we helped others to follow their dreams of attending cooking school. It doesn't get any better than that.

Fantastic experience: Amazing cooking class! Extremely informative and really fun! Jacob was great! He taught us different techniques and the food was amazing!!

Fantastic experience: Such a fun cooking class! Jacob is an incredible teacher!

Fantastic experience: I just had an amazing event with 25 of my co-workers! We learned how to make some delightful pasta from scratch, meatballs, sauce, and an amazing karaoke sing along throughout the whole process! Chef Jacob was great and charismatic, which was similar to a prior feed the mass event I attended with him. All around great experience for a great cause, would highly recommend!

Fantastic experience: Our work group went here tonight and had a blast!! Making pasta was easier and way more fun than I thought it would be. Jacob was laid back and funny, and also very informative. I love that this is all for a good cause as well. Highly recommend! #trythemeatballs

Fantastic experience: Amazing cooking class! Super fun, informative, delicious, and you're supporting a wonderful non-profit that gives back to the community! 10/10 ❤️

Fantastic experience: Super fun cooking class and such a wonderful organization! Fun atmosphere and excellent instruction from Chef Jacob...impossible to have anything but an amazing meal.

Fantastic experience: Such a fantastic organization!

Fantastic experience: Jacob is a champ. Very welcoming and knows how to keep a crowd engaged

Fantastic experience: Best experience ever!

Fantastic experience: Great classes at a reasonable price! The Chef is very nice, knowledgeable and encouraging! I will for sure take another class next time I visit Portland.

Fantastic experience: Chef Jacob is a fantastic instructor and the class atmosphere was fun!

Fantastic experience: The spicy Indian curry wasn’t the only thing that was hot in this cooking class. If you googled best looking Chef, you would see a photo of Chef Jacob. If I were you I would bring a ring with you to the next cooking class so you can propose and lock that down. He’s also super fun loving, has awesome jokes, and is a great instructor. The recipes he teaches are so simple that I will make use them to meal prep. With every bite I plan on daydreaming about what our life would’ve been like together on our dream farm. Bless up and peace out.

Fantastic experience: Super fun cooking class providing detailed instruction but in a relaxed environment. Focus on from scratch cooking and best practices for cooking. Definitely a must try for those wanting a fun evening where you can learn something new!

Fantastic experience: Pumpkin Curry Night Amazing chef, had a great night, very fun and welcoming energy! Plus a great non profit, ask Jacob about it.

Fantastic experience: Fun cooking lesson at an affordable rate. Jacob was very personable and friendly. I learned a lot and had an amazing time

Fantastic experience: This place is the best. Chef Jacob is the bomb. Go here and support them!

Fantastic experience: Great evening for a team event...it was a hit.

Fantastic experience: Amazing! Chef Jacob was fantastic. Great experience and fun atmosphere. Will definitely be back!

Fantastic experience: Great! Went for a company event and had a blast! Jacob was fantastic!

Fantastic experience: Had a great experience making Pad Thai with Jacob!

Fantastic experience: The instructors were great and well knowledgeable! I can’t wait to go to another class!

Fantastic experience: Had a fun night making some dim sum. Nice kitchen, friendly chef, great price and so much food. Was able to pick up a beer downstairs at whole foods and bring it to class. Overall one of the more enjoyable cooking classes I have done. And super cheap.

Fantastic experience: Loved my first class (chicken pho) tonight!!! Chef Jacob is awesome, patient, knowledgeable, and hilarious. Such a pleasure to be in his class. I learned SO much and had a delicious meal to boot. Thank you Chef for a fun delicious evening and I can’t wait for my next class!!

Fantastic experience: Jacob is an amazing instructor and great person! He gets down to the small details important in everyday cooking and truly cares about making everyone better in their skillsets. I learned so much and the people in the class were so friendly and fun. I would recommend this class to everyone I know because it's simple, fun and an overall amazing experience all for a good cause.

Fantastic experience: Lots of fun

Fantastic experience: Had such a great time with Chef Alec and learn how to use a pumpkin for something more than just carving or painting. The Thai pumpkin curry was delicious, and surprisingly, also vegan. Great and great people! So excited to have an organization in Portland like this!

Fantastic experience: Took this cooking class with my boyfriend on a whim and had so much fun. Did the thai pumpkin curry class with chef Alec and it was so good! chef Jacob was also there and there with so much great information. We bought 5 classes and are looking forward to take the rest of our classes! Your pitches for classes can help fund Classes people who can’t afford them, really bringing to life their motto of empowering people through food. Thank you guys so much for everything feed the mass! Can’t wait to do this again!

Fantastic experience: So much fun! I did this cooking class with a friend but will soon be doing it for date night. The chefs are so fun and patient with people who are new to cooking and they share the recipes so you can make it again later. Highly recommend!

Fantastic experience: Great place to learn new dishes!

Fantastic experience: We took the dessert class here - creme brûlée, pots de crème and chocolate croissants. Our instructor, Jacob, was very knowledgeable and helpful. He was very patient and helped fix our mistakes. The class is a great activity for large groups also! They accommodated 10 of us.

Fantastic experience: Super fun and engaging dessert making class with Jacob. Highly recommend for a private event.

Fantastic experience: My team did a Mediterranean cooking class with Chef Jacob and it was a blast! We learned how less is more when it comes to cooking simple, delicious dishes. It was a great team building exercise to self-organize around the different jobs (chopping, kneading, grilling, etc.) and come together as a team to create an amazing meal. We asked tons of questions about ingredients and techniques and it is clear Chef Jacob is knowledgable and highly passionate about his work. Wonderful experience!

Fantastic experience: We did a team building paella class. It was a ton of fun, Jacob is engaging and informative. This is a great activity for a group to do something outside of the box. Jacob is passionate about making healthy food and cooking available to everyone. Awesome experience

Fantastic experience: Great class, Chef Jacob was amazing!!! Highly recommend to team building Thank You Again

Fantastic experience: This was an amazing experience we had as a leadership team. Jacob was very friendly and awesome

Fantastic experience: Excellent cooking class! Well paced and extremely informative. Chef Jacobsen is incredible!

Fantastic experience: Come here for all your team building needs!

Fantastic experience: Delicious food, amazing people. I don’t usually enjoy cooking but this definitely made it fun and was worth it!

Fantastic experience: Awesome team bonding! Great food! Fun Instructor !

Fantastic experience: Feed the Mass. Great community concept. Fun classes. Delicious food. Affordable! Many thanks to Chef Jacob.

Fantastic experience: Had a great time taking a tempura class with my kids. Chef Jacob made the experience fun, educational and tasty!

Fantastic experience: Visited Portland on vacation and took a Ramen making class. AMAZING! I have the dangerous tools to start making ramen at home (skipping the 10 cent Top Ramen!).

Fantastic experience: Had so much fun at a Ramen class with Chef Jacob with my team from work!!!! Great things they are doing for the community!!!! Please check this place out and support the local community!!

Fantastic experience: This was a great team activity! Props to the chef!

Fantastic experience: The Indian Beer Curry Class was a great way to spend an evening. Jacob showed us how to make a delicious Indian meal and also threw in lots of other cooking tidbits.

Fantastic experience: Wonderful classes! Great food and atmosphere

Fantastic experience: My husband and I took a tamale class for our date night. It was the most amazing experience. We worked with another couple to create picco de gillo, and our tamales. When we finished making them, we got to take them home and then enjoy some tamales that’s had been being cooked the whole time we were there. It was so fun to get to take the food home, as well as enjoy it in the moment. There are so many options for food classes both adult and child and I want to sign up for all of them! Super affordable for what you are being offered!

Fantastic experience: I learned so many helpful tips and tricks, the food was amazing, and the experience was a lot of fun!

Fantastic experience: I give Feed the Mass 15 Stars!!! That's five stars for each of the three classes I've taken so far. The skills and techniques I've learned are invaluable, and to be able to learn so much in a short period of time is awesome. Chef Jacob does such a great job teaching and facilitating, he has a way of making everyone feel comfortable and capable of pulling off these amazing meals! I'll be going back again, and again no doubt about it.

Fantastic experience: I am visiting from Chicago and my wife found a cooking class for our family and it was a great experience! We learned how to cut a small side of beef and cook Filet Mignon steaks along with sides. I highly recommend this to anyone and the best thing is it supports a great cause of teaching and feeding people.

Fantastic experience: Great knowledge, great food and great people. Learned a lot at the Filet Minon class and learned a bit about butchering, which I've wanted to do for a while, and taught me how to cook mushrooms in a way that makes me loves eating them - - they are usually the only things I won't eat. Also really focused on the community side of his program, which is something very awesome and unique

Fantastic experience: Had a great time celebrating my birthday with a filet mignon cooking class! A good mix of learning and hands on cooking. My only request would be a knife for eating steak! Jacob and his assistant were awesome, friendly and helpful!

Fantastic experience: Feed the Mass is a worthy organization and offers incredible cooking classes to boot! Jacob is an amazing teacher; he’s informative, laying things out in a very clear and illustrative way; generous; a pleasure to learn from and cook with.

Fantastic experience: Great place and amazing chef! As a volunteer at FTM I had a chance to meet other folx from my community, learn about food and help Chef Jacobsen with classes.. this is a great organization that teaches, inspires and actually feeds the needy!! it was really fun and I can’t wait to go back!

Fantastic experience: Wonderful People ❤️

Negative experience: Don't waste your money here! This "nonprofit" doesn't care about safeguarding your privacy or data. I signed up for a cooking class here, begged off work early, trekked in dead-stop rush hour traffic across town, even paid for parking... only to be turned away at the door because this "nonprofit" was doing an impromptu filming of the class. They pressed me to sign a waiver, to sign my soul away to be part of their unknown film, to let them use my image however they saw fit on Facebook and the internet. I politely declined and was told to leave. Did the organizers let me know ahead of time that they would be filming the class, send a little email warning? Nope. Did this "nonprofit" explain what legal rights I would be giving up to be part of their unknown video? Nope. Entire US elections are being swayed by abuses of our data and privacy and this "nonprofit" doesn't think it's important to be transparent about how your image and information will be used. Go elsewhere, please, where you won't have cameras forced in your face just for a cooking class.