Stage & Study-Abroad Support
Airfare, housing, and basic living expenses for approved international or domestic placements
Mentorship & Guidance
Connecting young cooks with working chefs and industry professionals
How Let the Kids Cook Puts the Mission into Action:
Tools of the Trade
Community Fundraisers & Donor Support
Events and partnerships that directly fund individual opportunities
Chef coats, uniforms, knife kits, shoes, and essential equipment.
Educational & Career Grants
Supporting culinary school, hospitality programs, and professional training.
Founded by a chef who came from a humble background and found purpose, discipline, and opportunity through cooking, our mission is rooted in the belief that the kitchen can change lives.
– If cooking changed my life, it can change theirs too, Donnie Masterton
Mission: Let the Kids Cook opens doors in the culinary and hospitality world for young people who have the passion but not the means. Our mission is to provide educational funding, mentorship, practical support, and job opportunities so a young cook's future is shaped by talent, not circumstance.
Vision: A future where no promising young cook is held back by what they can't afford — where kitchens across the country are filled with talent that might otherwise have gone unrealized.
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Our goal is simple:
to turn curiosity into confidence, passion into skill, and dreams into sustainable careers
—one young cook at a time-
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