Questions

A local home cook in your community who has been background-checked by a third party, Checkr, and who has a valid food safety certification.

They're cooking the food they grew up on, not a menu we handed them.

Yes, and this is the part we're strictest about. Every cook clears a background check before they can accept a single booking, and every cook holds a current food safety certification.

No one gets an exception, and no one cooks for a family before both are done.

Because a different person is cooking. Every cook sets their own hourly rate and their own estimate of how long a dinner takes, and we show you theirs rather than an average.

Your cook does the shopping on the way to you. You're billed what the ingredients actually cost — we add no markup on food.

Cooking a cuisine properly sometimes means a specific shop for a specific ingredient. That's part of what you're paying for.

The price you see on this page includes an estimate for groceries so the number is realistic. The final amount reflects the real receipt.

It depends on the cuisine you pick and how many people you're feeding. One dinner for four ranges from about $95 to $255 all in, depending on the cook.

That's everything: the cook's time, the grocery run, and the ingredients. There's no membership fee on top.

Tell us on the form and we'll confirm with the cook before anything is booked.

Greater Boston. If you're outside the area, leave your email anyway — it's how we decide where to go next.

Tell us and we'll move it. Life doesn't hold still, and a service that punishes you for that isn't much of a service.