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What is considered cottage food? What can I cook and sell from my home kitchen?

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Selling food from your home kitchen requires a special permit called a Cottage Food permit.

Pastries, sauces, jams, and other preserves are all common cottage food. The State has a helpful list of approved cottage foods that you can check out!

If you want to sell food you make in your own kitchen, you are required to apply for a Cottage Food permit. Cottage Food is a term commonly used by regulating bodies when they refer to foods prepared in a home kitchen and then sold.

There are 2 classes of permits in Sonoma County:

  • Class A: sell direct to consumers
  • Class B: sell to local shops, restaurants, or other third-party locations



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