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Regular family cooking
A regular cooking arrangement that quietly takes the weekday cooking off your plate. Several dishes prepared in a session and ready when you need them.
Private & family cook · BerkshirePatrizia's
Patrizia's
Kitchen
Food that works. Every day.
Fresh, thoughtful home-cooked food, prepared in your own kitchen and built around the way your family really eats — the weeknights, the fussy eaters, the days nobody has time to cook.
What I do
I cook in your kitchen, around the way your household actually eats.
I come to your home on a regular basis and cook fresh, thoughtful food for everyday family life — bringing variety, good ingredients and the experience to make familiar food better, while introducing new dishes and flavours along the way. Nothing fussy, no theatre — just genuinely good food, cooked around the way your household likes to eat.
We start from what your household likes. Then I work with your routine: school nights, shift patterns, late meetings, a toddler who eats at five and adults who eat at eight. Dietary needs, allergies and preferences are simply part of the plan, not an awkward extra.
You come home to food that is ready, properly seasoned and genuinely good — and to a kitchen left as tidy as I found it.
Who it helps
Three ways families work with me
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Food tailored to your household
Vegetarian, vegan, dairy-free, low-spice, teenage appetites, small children — dishes are adjusted to real preferences and dietary needs, not a fixed menu.
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Extra help when life is busy
New parents, working households and demanding stretches of work or life. Short-term help so that eating well is one less thing to organise.
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A taste of my kitchen
Everyday dishes, cooked in family homes across Berkshire. Mediterranean roots, but the cooking goes wherever a household's appetite goes.
How it works
Three steps, no fuss
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We talk
A straightforward conversation about what your household likes, what it avoids, how many you are and how often you would like help.
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I come and cook
I come to your kitchen and cook the dishes we've agreed — several in a session, seasoned and portioned for how your household eats.
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You eat well
Freshly prepared food left ready for the meals that follow, so a good dinner takes the pressure off a busy week.
Meet PatriziaMore about me
An Italian cook who has spent years feeding real households.
Cooking has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. What began as a lifelong passion gradually became professional work — first through vegetarian and vegan catering in Milan, then through years of running and teaching cooking courses, and later through cooking for families in the UK. Along the way, I’ve cooked for everything from everyday meals to large-scale catering, always driven by the same thing: curiosity about food and the pleasure of making it well.
Reading · Wokingham · nearby Berkshire
Shall I cook for you?
Tell me a little about your household — how many of you there are, what you like to eat and how often you would like a hand. I'll reply personally.