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Common Threads Cooking and Nutrition Education Programs offers hands-on cooking and nutrition education for children and families. Program activities include knife-free cooking, learning knife skills, using a wide variety of cooking equipment, and learning kitchen safety. Lessons use culturally-responsive nutritious recipes and promote diversity in lessons and recipes, encouraging participants to celebrate the world around them.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
Common Threads is a national nonprofit that provides hands-on cooking and nutrition education to children and families in under-resourced communities. The organization is celebrating 20 years of empowering communities to make nutritious food choices. Its programs equip under-resourced communities with information to make affordable, nutritious and appealing food choices wherever they live, work, learn and play.
The Small Bites program teaches PK–8th grade students about nutrition and healthy cooking through eight lessons that combine nutrition and knife-free cooking. The Cooking Skills & World Cuisine program is chef-led and challenges students to explore the culture and cuisine of different countries in the kitchen while using a wide variety of cooking equipment. The Cooking Up Health course teaches basic culinary skills, steps to create nutritious meals, relationships between food, health, and disease, and cultural competencies around nutrition. The T.E.A.C.H. (Teaching Everyone About Cooking & Health) online portal is for educators and caregivers to equip them to become nutrition and wellness ambassadors.
Common Threads offers programming in multiple markets across the country. Common Threads and Anahata Foundation have a multi-year partnership to build generational health and advance “Food As Medicine” in Los Angeles, California and New York City.
Last updated January 4, 2026.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
Common Threads is a national nonprofit that provides hands-on cooking and nutrition education to children and families in under-resourced communities. The organization is celebrating 20 years of empowering communities to make nutritious food choices. Its programs equip under-resourced communities with information to make affordable, nutritious and appealing food choices wherever they live, work, learn and play.
The Small Bites program teaches PK–8th grade students about nutrition and healthy cooking through eight lessons that combine nutrition and knife-free cooking. The Cooking Skills & World Cuisine program is chef-led and challenges students to explore the culture and cuisine of different countries in the kitchen while using a wide variety of cooking equipment. The Cooking Up Health course teaches basic culinary skills, steps to create nutritious meals, relationships between food, health, and disease, and cultural competencies around nutrition. The T.E.A.C.H. (Teaching Everyone About Cooking & Health) online portal is for educators and caregivers to equip them to become nutrition and wellness ambassadors.
Common Threads offers programming in multiple markets across the country. Common Threads and Anahata Foundation have a multi-year partnership to build generational health and advance “Food As Medicine” in Los Angeles, California and New York City.
Last updated January 4, 2026.
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