Chef Matt Hummel

Matt Hummel is a Trumansburg native whose early food memories include canning homemade produce from his parents' garden.  At least twice a month his parents would take him and sisters for breakfast at The Store at Treman’s Village, which is presently the Hazelnut Kitchen.  

Building experience with scratch cooking and seasonal cuisine, Matt cooked in kitchens in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Boston for Food and Wine Best New Chefs and James Beard award winners.

Twenty years and many kitchens later, Matt comes full circle and returns to Trumansburg with his wife and two children.  As a family, we are hoping to build community, support one another, and mostly have a little fun introducing our children to a healthy home and small business. As the new chef and owner of the Hazelnut Kitchen, Chef Hummel is eager to work with local farms and purveyors and raise his family in the flourishing community of the Finger Lakes.