Private Chef Hanna Lilly

Hello! I am a Portland-based private chef with close to a decade of experience in the industry. With a working history in prominent restaurants both in Chicago and Portland, as well as seasons as a farmer and food educator, my culinary lineage holds a diversity of both professional and community-driven experience. It is from this place of union -- from the hard work of hands and the depth of the heart -- that I cook.

For me, cooking is...

For me, cooking is primarily a relationship with Earth, with the living ecosystem that is our planet and our home.

I learned to cook at...

I learned to cook first from my mother, a German immigrant & dedicated home chef. The rest, from restaurant work, private chefing, and event catering.