This past year, the COOK Alliance passed the first home cooking law in the country. We’re humbled to have catalyzed this movement, but we don’t have all the answers. Home cooking sits at the intersection of food justice, labor justice, tech policy, and even conscious consumerism.
Join us for an honest retrospective on our work thus far, and an intimate dialogue about the promise and peril of this new food economy.
Join us for a homey welcome dinner the night before our convening
Wednesday October 2nd, 6:30PM
Those attending the conference in-person are invited to join COOK Alliance team members & other conference attendees for an intimate, home cooked dinner hosted by one of our East Bay cooks.
We’re excited to have you meet the wonderful cooks that we’ve modeled our movement after, and for their homes and families to be the context and backdrop to our programming the following day.
Dinner will be casual and homey, and host assignments/transportation arrangements will be made the week beforehand.
We're working to give home cooks the opportunity, power, & agency to pursue dignified work from their home kitchens.
We’ve been fighting for home cooks’ right to dignified, legal, and profitable work since 2014. Our groundbreaking 2018 home cooking legislation (AB 626) created a new permit for “Microenterprise Home Kitchens”, making California the first state where home cooks can sell all types of prepared foods to the public.
With new legislation passed, we’re expanding our focus to make sure that this new industry is more fair, more equitable, and more impactful than the traditional food and gig industries. We will support cooks directly with education and tools, while continuing our policy leadership and labor organizing on their behalves.
Our work, and this movement, are just beginning.