[MS.BEHAVIN]

Thanks so much Lady Fawnn..

doing lots of reserch on the legalities of being a "personal chef"

Seems you can cook in other folks' homes for profit, but not in your own...??? (dept of Health garbage)

Might be able to pay a Church or Lion's or Elks club to use their kitchen to cater larger affairs..

The cooking stuff I have down pat, it's the durned laws I have to deal with..

Sheesh

Ms.B

[Fawnn]

I saw a show on FoodTV where a lady rents a church kitchen to make specialty foods she sells to corp. accounts -- for gifts, etc. I think she made chocolates, but don't recall for sure now. ... I guess those health dept. laws explains why it might be easier to do that than to remodel her own kitchen.

I watched biographies on Julia Child and James Beard (on the Biography Channel) over the weekend. I'd love to teach cooking classes in my home like Beard did. In his case, he converted pretty much the entire first floor of his Greenwich Village apartment to kitchen space. (His upstairs bathroom was so small that he installed a shower on his fire escape "porch" because he didn't have room for a tub upstairs!)

Go to foodtv.com or foodnetwork.com and check out the "resource lists" for the "Food Finds" and "Best of" programs. They feature a lot of specialty food chefs, esp. the "Food Finds" program. (There's a book by that name, too.) Many of the "resources" have their own Web sites, so you can often learn about how they operate their business/es on the about page/s on the site/s.