Island chefs are offering a peek into their kitchens during a series of cooking classes this spring. The series is a fundraiser for the Shakespeare Festival, which is coming up April 7 to 11.  Each class is $100. You will learn from the best, dine, drink wine and take home recipes. Island Market is sponsoring the series, and all classes will be hosted at Red Rabbit Farm in West Sound starting at 3 p.m.

Coming up next is Geddes Martin who will show how to prepare his farm-raised pork and cook unfamiliar cuts of meat on March 14.

A Vermont native, Martin went to culinary school in Portland, Ore. He worked as a Chef de Cuisine at Atwaters Restaurant. He then sought the challenge of a brand new kitchen by working for Kimpton Group’s (then new) Red Star Restaurant in Portland’s Hotel Monaco. Martin moved to Orcas Island with Mary Anna and their young family in the early spring of 1998 to be the chef at Rosario Resort.  Four years later, he and Mary Anna embarked on the journey which has become celebrated as Inn at Ship Bay. Martin’s commitment to a “know the food source” philosophy is reflected in the Inn at Ship Bay’s several acres of kitchen gardens and working fruit orchards. He is also one of the few stockman who breed and raise Mangalista pigs on the west coast.

Coming up next are Christina Orchid (March 21) and Steve Debaste (March 29). To sign up for any of the classes, visit the Chamber of Commerce office on North Beach Road or The Office Cupboard in the post office building.