About Cooking Matters

Cooking Matters is a nutrition education and cooking program that teaches low-income families how to cook healthy meals on a budget. The program consists of a six week course of weekly, hands-on classes that are led by experienced chefs and nutrition professionals. Weekly classes vary in topic from the basics of healthy cooking and tips for shopping smart to food ideas and recipes for staying active. Cooking Matters aims to empower kids, teens, adults and families with skills and confidence to sustain healthier lives. Classes of between ten and fifteen participants are currently being planned to serve Lehigh and Northampton counties.



Cooking Matters is a program of Share Our Strength, a national anti-hunger organization that aspires to end hunger and poverty in the United States with the primary goal of ending childhood hunger. Second Harvest offers this program in partnership with Share Our Strength.