About

Salem Gnu Kitchen is, first and foremost, a commercial kitchen. Our main purpose is to help entrepreneurs, caterers and small local businesses in and around Salem (and the North Shore) grow their businesses and become successful. We truly believe that supporting our local farmers and local businesses is not only vital to our environment, but it’s the smartest way to support a healthy community. Secondarily, we are a culinary learning facility and cooking school with a mission to offer our clients a wide range of culinary education. Those attending classes at Salem Gnu Kitchen will not just learn a few handy knife skills and cooking tips. Whether you’re looking to live the vegan life, make the perfect sauce, amp up your keto, or even give your date night a red carpet treatment, we are your one-stop shop for a culinary cornucopia of knowledge! Be sure to check our our What’s Gnu section to see our current and upcoming classes!

SO… WHY THE FUNNY NAME?

In 1983, Richard Stallman began the ‘Free Software Movement’ with the invention and release of the GNU operating system (whose logo you see to your right). Free Software means just what it sounds like; it gives the freedom to the ‘users’ to run, copy, distribute, study, change, develop and improve the platform. In other words, it belongs to the software ‘community’. GNU is also another word for Wildebeest – a type of African antelope whose identity many people have a hard time discerning due to the fact that it has the horns of a water buffalo, the body of an antelope, the tail of an ox and a face that only a mother could love. To sum up the idea of our business; a business that is not only a mix of everything, but also belongs to the ‘community’…well, the name was just too good to pass up.