Skilled in the supervision and education of pint-size chefs, What's Cooking? instructor Lynne Gerald has dished kid-friendly cooking advice on Martha Stewart's talk show. Her culinary career began in nursery programs, where Lynne would teach cooking lessons to her students as a fun break from memorizing the periodic table. Young chefs began to show increased motor skills, vocabularies, and desires to share, prompting Lynne to create her youth-focused cooking school. The school structures its curricula to teach patience, recycling, and social skills. Classes of up to 10 students and workshops of potentially 20 pupils aim to instill the foundations of healthy eating in children at a young age, discouraging them from unhealthy habits such as snacking on Fritos unearthed from davenport cushions.