A Shared Kitchen, a 35-Year-Old Bakery, and One Woman’s Bet on Knoxville
Through Real Good Kitchen, Bailey Foster is giving food entrepreneurs a shot and making sure the places Knoxville grew up on don’t disappear.
Emily Satterlee
Through Real Good Kitchen, Bailey Foster is giving food entrepreneurs a shot and making sure the places Knoxville grew up on don’t disappear.
Across California, counties are writing and testing the first true home-kitchen-to-consumer regulations, designed to “democratize” food entrepreneurship by allowing certain meals to be sold from a residence. The intent is understandable: lower barriers to entry, expand economic opportunity, and bring informal food businesses into a regulated framework. But as these policies move from paper to practice, the reality is already more complicated, and more consequential, than the early headlines suggest.
The modern food system was built for a very specific household: a family of four, eating three predictable meals a day and buying in bulk. Today’s reality looks very different.
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