931 - A Big Setback for Nutrition Education

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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4.8 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

About this episode:

Since 2010, the nonprofit ChopChop Family has published magazines, cookbooks, and other tools to help pediatricians and nutrition educators inform families about the positive health outcomes of cooking nutritious foods. But deep cuts to SNAP-Ed, the federally-funded nutrition education program, are placing programs like ChopChop Family in limbo. In this episode: ChopChop Family founder and president Sally Sampson explains how the rapid rollback of SNAP-Ed is crippling nutrition education.

Guest:

Sally Sampson is a cookbook author and the founder and president of ChopChop Family, a nonprofit publisher of cooking magazines, cookbooks, digital content, cooking curricula, and learning decks for children and families.

Host:

Dr. Josh Sharfstein is vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a faculty member in health policy, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland’s Health Department.

Show links and related content:

Budget cuts knock down a ‘pillar of public health,’ ending nutrition education—STAT
ChopChop Podcast—Apple Podcasts
ChopChop Family Newsletter—Substack

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
0:05.9	where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges.
0:16.3	If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh.h.u.edu.
0:23.8	That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:30.3	It's Lindsay Smith-Badgers.
0:32.1	Today, where to find a great recipe for a strawberry vanilla smoothie.
0:37.6	Sally Samson is the founder of Chop Chop, the Fun Cooking Magazine for Families.
0:41.9	She talks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about how she got started, how to get kids involved in cooking,
0:46.9	and an abrupt change on the horizon to her efforts.
0:50.5	Let's listen.
0:52.6	Sally Samson, the founder and president of Chop Chop Magazine, welcome to public health on call.
0:58.6	Thanks for having me.
1:00.1	I am really looking forward to our conversation because I have been a Chop Chop Fam for a really long time.
1:06.3	Let me turn to you to explain what Chop Chop is.
1:09.8	Okay.
1:10.6	So Chop Chop Family is a nonprofit that I found
1:13.8	it 15 years ago. And the main thing that we've been doing is publishing a kids cooking magazine
1:19.6	called Chop Chop the Fun Cooking Magazine for Families. It's distributed wherever you find kids.
1:26.4	It's in Spanish and English.
1:28.3	And the point of it really is to get kids to cook real food with their families.
1:33.8	I'm going to ask you more about Top Chop, but I want to backtrack a little to more about you.
1:37.9	How did you get into this line of work putting forward a cooking magazine for kids and families?
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