Nicolas hosted us at his apartment for a wonderfully unique and thoughtfully curated cooking class. Nicolas has clearly spent countless hours carefully planning an authentic Finnish cooking experience for his guests. He seamlessly incorporated meaningful ways for our kids to help prepare the meal, all while teaching us about traditional Finnish dishes. Nicolas included several special touches, like using herbs and other ingredients harvested fresh from his own personal garden and providing us a sample of a rare mushroom tea that he prepared himself. He shared a lot of personal knowledge about health and wellness that he has learned over the years and we genuinely enjoyed our conversation over the delicious meal we prepared together.

Nicolas has created an incredibly special and unique experience that we feel so lucky and fortunate to have booked during our trip to Finland. Although it poured down rain throughout most of the day, Nicolas ensured that our mushroom foraging adventure was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from an expert. He clearly has vast knowledge of the forest and guided us deftly through the woods to find and harvest several species of mushrooms and then cooked us a delicious meal with them over a campfire. We had four kids with us and Nicolas frequently checked to ensure that everyone was safe and understood the information that he was teaching us about the various types of mushrooms we encountered in the forest.

Nicolas was very knowledgeable and nice. We foraged a lot of different types of mushrooms. The meal he made with them was good. I learned a lot about mushrooms.

Nicolas was super knowledgeable and included us on every step of the process--except for the things that needed rest/prep time, like the dough. I really enjoyed getting to practice proper dough rolling technique, as well as leaning the cultural mentality toward food and cooking and ingredients here in Finland as well. The other guests and I enjoyed chatting with each other and Nicolas, and I would gladly recommend this to anyone who enjoys cooking, learning about food, bettering their own technique, or just having a good time in a small-group setting. I gained a renewed appreciation for the quality of locally grown ingredients and how when the quality of ingredients is good, you don't need lots of over salting and sugaring to get a really delicious meal in the end. The Kerelian pie we made was better than one I ate in a restaurant here. I would gladly make these recipes on my own! Can't wait for the recipes! 😀🙏