I offer in-home cooking for individuals, families, and other small groups in New York City. I am located in lower Manhattan but am happy to travel within the city & between boroughs if feasible.

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I typically work in terms of "cooking days." A cooking day includes ingredient sourcing and shopping and a visit of approximately 5 hours to your home.  

 

I begin with a conversation. I aim to learn anything you want to share with me about your vision for how you want to eat and how I can help bring it into being. We can work together to discover and articulate this vision. After our conversation, we can begin with an initial trial cooking day.

 

For each cooking day, I’ll propose a menu shaped by what you’ve shared with me, my sense of what’s best at the market at the moment, and other ideas and intuitions about what’s seasonally and personally supportive. Requests and changes are always welcome as we finalize the menu.

 

The amount of food I make in a cooking day is personalized – it can be the right amount for one person or several people, and cover up to four days, or sometimes more if we include things for the freezer. If you would like to have my food to eat all week, it will usually take two cooking days over the course of the week. 

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​My sample menus represent an idea of what I could make over two cooking days in one week. I like to design menus anticipating that you’ll eat some things more than once, and I like the menu items to have a mix and match quality where you might eat different things together on different days, either for lunch or dinner. I imagine you'll supplement what I make with simply prepared vegetables, grains, or other simple sides, and I can help with this if you like. I can also include homemade, clean, nutritious replacements for some pantry staples like crackers, nut milk, ice cream, fresh herbal tea blends, etc., if that is supportive. 

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As always, I am open to developing any other configurations that suit you.

 

The cost of a cooking day starts at $500, plus the cost of groceries.

 

After the initial trial session, I hope for us to come to a mutually-supportive agreement to work together at regular intervals for a period of at least 3 months. My dream is to get to know you well enough through cooking for you that I can make the food you most want and that most supports you.

 

 

I hold an NYC Food Protection Certificate and am insured to cook in your home.