At Home in the Kitchen:
A Spicebox for Healthy Aging
Thank you to everyone who attended our online forum on May 9, 2024! The recording of this live conversation has been published as an At Home, On Air podcast episode.
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“Food is essential to not just our everyday nourishment, but health in all ways, and is a very big expression of caring for people.”
Dr. Linda Shiue
Thank You to Our Featured Guest:
Linda Shiue, MD | Physician, Chef, Author, and the Director of Culinary Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco
Thank You to Our Forum Host:
Howard Thornton | Board Member of At Home With Growing Older
Conversation Details:
In this episode, Dr. Shiue discusses her work at the nexus of food and medicine and offers suggestions for establishing a conscientious diet that can enhance health, longevity, and the basic pleasure to be found in nourishing ourselves. This conversation offers another perspective on our season topic of, “Exploring Healthy Aging in the Places We Call Home: From a Piece of Nature to Our Bodies.”
Topics of Discussion:
- Masala Dabba
- Produce prescriptions
- Benefits of home cooking
- Solo-eating
- Eating with your eyes
- Teaching kitchens
- And food for healthy aging
About Linda Shiue:
Linda Shiue, MD, Chef, Dip ABLM is a physician double-boarded in internal medicine physician and lifestyle medicine, a professionally trained chef, and the Director of Culinary Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, where she founded Thrive Kitchen, a teaching kitchen for patients, and is now offering fee-based individual consultations in lifestyle and culinary medicine available to any adult in California. Her first Cookbook, Spicebox Kitchen, was a 2022 Gold Award Winner in the Nautilus Book Awards and a Finalist in the 2022 IACP Awards. Dr. Shiue is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, where she co-founded a culinary medicine elective for medical students.
She serves on the boards of the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, Meals on Wheels of San Francisco and the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative. She is a graduate of Brown University, San Francisco Cooking School, UCSF and the kitchen of Michelin-starred restaurant, Mourad, in San Francisco and has a Certificate in Plant Based Nutrition from Cornell University.
Social Media:
Learn about Lifestyle Medicine and Culinary Medicine programs at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco at Lifestyle Medicine – San Francisco (kaiserpermanente.org) and Healthy Cooking – San Francisco (kaiserpermanente.org).
Connect with Dr. Shiue on Twitter and Instagram at @spiceboxtravels, on Facebook and YouTube at @TheDoctorsSpicebox and follow her culinary adventures at SpiceboxTravels.com.
Takeaway Resources
From the Discussion:
- Learn more about Lifestyle Medicine
- Thrive Kitchen Cooking Classes (virtual)
- Lifestyle Medicine Physician Consultation
- Culinary Medicine Physician Coaching
- Adventist Health Study-2
Dr. Shiue’s favorite recipes in her cookbook, Spicebox Kitchen:
- Pozole Verde
- Aloha Pineapple Kimchi
- Moroccan Zaalouk (Eggplant Salad)
- Jerk Tempeh Kebabs
Other Resources:
- AHWGO’s resource letter, Something to Write Home About
- AHWGO selected materials around the season topic of, Exploring Healthy Aging in the Places We Call Home: From a Piece of Nature to Our Bodies
- Listen to Dr. Shiue’s interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN
- Read Dr. Shiue’s profile in Bon Appetit
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The original, live conversation was recorded on:
Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 5:30 PM PST.