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Thanks to our extended network of volunteers & advocates, the home cooking movement has been covered by dozens of news outlets across the country. Please find select radio, newspaper, and television reports below.
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In the Paper
Dec 2, 2024
Cooks Get Permits to Make Dishes at Home (Read more)
Nov 20, 2024
Home kitchen mini-restaurants now a thing in LA County. Oh, and it’s legal too. (Read More)
Nov 19, 2024
A recipe for economic growth: Why San Bernardino County needs home kitchen permits (Read More)
Nov 12, 2024
New Los Angeles County Program Permits Cooks to Sell Food From Home (Read More)
Nov 1, 2024
LA County home cooks can start serving meals. What you should know for food safety (Read More)
Oct 26, 2024
Meet the New Home Kitchen Business (Read More)
Oct 24, 2024
Can You Run a Restaurant Out of Your House? More Areas Now Say Yes to Cooking Up a Side Hustle at Home (Read More)
Oct 22, 2024
Sonoma County supervisors OK state program allowing home restaurants (Read More)
Oct 17, 2024
Long Beach considering a MEHKO program — allowing residents to sell home-cooked foods (Read Now)
Oct 16, 2024
LA County’s New Health Permit Could Launch a Wave of New Home-Based Restaurants (Read Now)
Oct 7, 2024
LA County Home Cooks Can Now Get Permits to Sell Food (Read Now)
Sept 12, 2024
New Santa Cruz County ordinance will permit home kitchens for commercial use (Read Now)
July 23, 2024
Contra Costa County hands out its first permit for home-based micro-restaurants (Read Now)
July 17, 2024
Recipe for success: New LA ordinance streamlines home kitchen operations (Read More)
July 5, 2024
Small and Profitable: Home Kitchen Businesses Get a Boost from County of Santa Barbara (Read More)
July 1, 2024
New Contra Costa health permit allows home kitchens to sell meals to the public (Read More)
June 2024
Economic Boost or Neighborhood Nuisance? The Battle Over Sonoma Home Restaurants Continues (Read More)
Jan 4, 2024
Sonoma County officials struggle to embrace state law on home kitchen operations (Read More)
Nov 28, 2023
From ‘just a dream’ to DIY restaurateurs: These San Diego chefs are running small businesses from their home kitchens (Read More)
Nov 9, 2023
Fostering Economic Growth: Promising Policies To Empower Home Cooks (Read MORe)
Nov 2, 2023
A new kind of permit allows food entrepreneurs to turn a home kitchen into a small-scale restaurant (Read MORe)
April 14, 2023
A political battle is cooking in my California kitchen (Read More)
April 12, 2023
Street Vendor Advocates Are Demanding the Implementation of a Bill That Will Legally Allow Them to Cook From home (Read More)
Sept 20, 2022
From Bali to San Diego with Love (Read More)
Sept 2, 2022
The challenges, and joys, of operating an East Bay home restaurant (Read More)
June 7, 2022
How Santa Cruz County’s Underground Chefs Hope to Go Legit (Read More)
May 3, 2022
Santa Clara County expands its home kitchen industry (Read More)
Mar 19, 2022
Micro-kitchens in San Diego county get cooking (READ MORE)
Feb 10, 2022
Local entrepreneurs ramp up as San Diego county legalizes home kitchen businesses (READ MORE)
Jan 27, 2022
Supervisors approve home kitchen operations in San Diego County (READ MORE)
Jan 13, 2022
San Diego Green Lights Mini-Restaurants Operated Out of Home Kitchens (Read More)
Nov 8, 2021
The Bay Area’s legal home restaurants are on the rise. Here are 10 new ones (READ MORE)
Oct 4, 2021
Six at-home restaurants open in oakland, dozens more planned (read more)
Sept 15, 2021
Inside one of the Bay Area’s first legal home restaurants (READ MORE)
Sept 15, 2021
San Diego County turns home cooking into small business opportunity (READ MORE)
April 8, 2021
Pandemic-Weary Chefs, Cooks Enjoy Serving From Home (READ MORE)
April 7, 2021
New Landmark Law In Utah Legalizes Selling Home Cooked Meals (READ MORE)
Feb 2, 2021
How COOK Alliance is Working to Let Cooks Sell Food from Home (Read more)
Nov 18, 2020
In the Covid Economy, Laid-Off Employees Become New Entrepreneurs (READ MORE)
Sept 2, 2020
Riverside’s Newly Legal Home Restaurants Look to Revolutionize California’s Food ScenE. (Read more)
June 30, 2020
It’s Now Legal for Home Chefs in California to Sell Meals. Will More Cities Get on Board? (READ MORE)
May 10, 2019
'Food is everything': Riverside becomes first California county to put state's home-kitchen law into effect
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Oct 10, 2018
Lumpia, pupusas and barbecue: Charleston’s underground food economy flourishes on Facebook Marketplace
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Oct 4, 2018
California legalized the sale of homemade food. It should remove barriers for other industries too
(Read More)
June 10, 2018
California home cooks stand up for bill that would decriminalize their work
(read more)
Sept 21, 2018
Home Cooks Can Now Sell Their Food in California
(read More)
Sept 19, 2018
A New Law Would Legalize Selling Home-Cooked Food in California
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Sept 12, 2018
Thousands of California home cooks have no idea they’re breaking the law every day
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Nov 7, 2016
Undercover sting nabs California mother selling ceviche through Facebook group
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On Television
On the Radio
Dec 4, 2024
Mar 26, 2022