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Common Threads Cooking and Nutrition Education Programs offers hands-on cooking and nutrition education to children and families. Activities include knife-free cooking, using a wide variety of cooking equipment, and following, preparing, and cooking full recipes. Lessons and recipes promote diversity and encourage participants to celebrate the world around them.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
Common Threads is a national nonprofit that provides programming in multiple markets across the country. It offers the Small Bites in- or after-school program for PK–8th grade students, which includes eight lessons that combine nutrition and knife-free cooking. The Cooking Skills & World Cuisine program is chef-led and focuses on the culture and cuisine of different countries while students use various cooking equipment to follow, prepare, and cook full recipes. The Healthy Food Foundations course covers 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 and equips them with skill sets to become nutrition and wellness ambassadors for children, students, and the community. Common Threads is celebrating 20 years of empowering communities to make nutritious food choices and equips under-resourced communities with information to make affordable, nutritious, and appealing food choices wherever they live, work, learn, and play.
Last updated July 17, 2026.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
Common Threads is a national nonprofit that provides programming in multiple markets across the country. It offers the Small Bites in- or after-school program for PK–8th grade students, which includes eight lessons that combine nutrition and knife-free cooking. The Cooking Skills & World Cuisine program is chef-led and focuses on the culture and cuisine of different countries while students use various cooking equipment to follow, prepare, and cook full recipes. The Healthy Food Foundations course covers 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 and equips them with skill sets to become nutrition and wellness ambassadors for children, students, and the community. Common Threads is celebrating 20 years of empowering communities to make nutritious food choices and equips under-resourced communities with information to make affordable, nutritious, and appealing food choices wherever they live, work, learn, and play.
Last updated July 17, 2026.
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