Good food starts at home.
MEHKO Foods is where California's home kitchens show what they're cooking — the dishes, the cooks behind them, and a fresh Kitchen Spotlight story every morning.
🍽️ Find a kitchen near you 🍳 Cook & sell from home 💬 Ask Mehko
Get your kitchen verified ✓
Cook from home under a county MEHKO permit? Claim your kitchen — we check the permit, and your page gets the verified badge plus everything below. Free, always.
- 📸 Photos of your food on your page
- 🎨 Your logo and colors
- ⭐ A review link and QR code for your counter and packaging
- 📰 A shot at the daily Kitchen Spotlight
Meet Ask Mehko 🤖
Our AI guide knows California home-kitchen life cold — permits, rules, and the business of selling from home. Ask in plain words, in your language.
- 📋 Permits & rules — fees and inspections in your county
- 📝 Applications — guided help filling out your county's own form
- 📣 Advocacy — letters to your Board of Supervisors or landlord
- 🍳 Kitchen life — menus, recipes, costs, selling, delivery apps
Kitchen Spotlight archive
One home kitchen featured every morning — real cooks, real plates, one neighborhood at a time. Meet everyone so far.
Watch & Learn · soon
Coming soon: short videos straight from home kitchens — how a signature dish comes together, and how inspections, permits, and delivery apps really work.
Good food needs good laws
Every dish here exists because a county said yes. See how home cooking became legal, which counties are still deciding, and how to add your voice.
Keep it free, keep it growing 💚
MEHKO Foods is free for everyone — cooks, eaters, and the curious. If it matters to you, chip in to keep the stories coming and the map free.
One family, three doors
MEHKO Finder helps neighbors find your kitchen. MehkoMe is your home base for running it. MEHKO Foods tells the food's story.