Columbia's Cooking!

Sherretta R. Thomas, MS, CHDC

Director

I am excited to join the Columbia's Cooking! team as the new Director and look forward to our upcoming activities including Summer Culinary Camps and monthy kids' classes! I encourage you to check our website often as we update the classes available and share this newsletter with your friends and colleagues!

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Welcome to New Director of CC!

Sherretta R. Thomas is the new Director of Columbia's Cooking! Sherretta has been part of the USC Family and served as the Recruitment Coordinator with the Child Hunger Project (PI, Dr. Sonya Jones) Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, as the , and before that she worked at the Prevention Research Center, STARS project (PI, Dr. Patricia Sharpe) as the Nutritionist Interventionist. She received both her BS degree in Family and Consumer Sciences with concentration in Child Development and MS in Nutritional Sciences from South Carolina State University. Sherretta’s career goals in the field of Nutrition and Research are to play a very vital role in assisting in eliminating childhood obesity and equipping underserved communities nutritional needs. Although these are a couple of things she is very proud to be involved in, her most prize accomplishment and ongoing endeavor is her family. Sherretta is a native of Mullins, SC, but now currently resides here in Columbia, SC with her husband, Marlon Thomas and their four children (Destini, Zahria, Kennedy and Ethan).

The focus of Columbia's Cooking! is  on making healthy living taste great.  So much of our life revolves around food and research is proving that what we eat impacts our health, whether it is prevention or control of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or another chronic illness.  However, for many people eating equates to complicated menus with no taste, excitement, or enjoyment.  Columbia's Cooking is changing this perception through hands-on cooking experiences aimed at showing healthy cooking tastes great and uses ingredients found at your local  store.  In both the demonstration and hands-on classes participants know where every ingredient comes from, how each one is used in the dishes created, and what the final creation tastes like.  Classes are offered throughout the year.  For more information about our services, please see the links below.

• Upcoming Healthy Cooking Classes
• Columbia's Cooking Newsletters
• Personalized Grocery Store Tours
• Corporate Team Building





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