Florida

If something contains meat or requires refrigeration (or you plan to cook on-site), a food license is required and everything must be prepared in a commercial kitchen. Homemade is not a legal option for such products.

If your home kitchen meets all of the requirements of a commercial kitchen (three-compartment sink, fire-prevention hood system, etc.), it MAY be possible to use that hoe kitchen, but it would have to be inspected and licensed and you would probably have to look into other requirements (such as zoning regulations) as to whether you could conduct such a business from your home (whereas cottage-food preparation, by definition, would not have these requirements).

So, check with your municipality, county and the state of Florida to find out what you would need to do. Since this would be licensed food production, you would contact the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR), instead 0f the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (which would be where to go for cottage-food).

¡Buena suerte! I hope the part of Florida you’re in is close to Daytona Beach: I’d love to get some good tamales or, even better, some nacatamales.