Cottage Food Business Student Guidebook

Chef Jorge Caughman has spent most of his life around food. Even as a young boy, his mother regularly assigned him to the chore of cooking dinner for their large family. Wanting to exercise his creative side, chef Jorge received his formal training at the Epicurean School of Culinary Arts where his innate talent for cooking was refined.

Further, Chef Jorge enjoys the business and marketing side of hospitality management, sustainability, cottage food operations, and culinary arts. He has been formally educated in these topics and holds a Master’s of Management from Cambridge College.

Chef Jorge’s love of food and the entrepreneurial business come together in one branded service: Chef Jorge Enterprises. Over the past 30 years, he has been able to generate full marketing and management campaigns with focused branding and targeting via cookbooks, restaurants, catering, product development, television appearances, radio/television advertisements, and online. Through this work, Chef Jorge successfully created both local and national audiences for his past restaurants, catering, food products, and services.

Now, his focus has turned toward guiding the next generation toward honing the craft of cookery. Chef Jorge is thrilled to offer his services as a professor, instructor, and workshop leader in the area of sustainable culinary arts, cottage food operations, and hospitality management at Monterey Peninsula College.