Linda Shiue

Linda Shiue, MD is a physician, chef and founder of Thrive Kitchen, a teaching kitchen for patients at Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco, where she is the first Director of Culinary Medicine and the Director of Lifestyle Medicine. After she took her first French cooking class at age seven, it took almost 40 more years before she finally went to culinary school at the San Francisco Cooking School where she trained in the kitchen of Michelin-starred restaurant, Mourad. In between, she studied anthropology and medicine at Brown University, with fieldwork in rural Sichuan, China and in uber-urban Singapore, continued her medical training at the University of California, San Francisco, and learned about plant-based nutrition at Cornell University. She believes that the best medicine is prevention. Her cooking classes showcase seasonal produce, lavishly flavored with spices and fresh herbs. Her debut cookbook, Spicebox Kitchen: Eat Well and Be Healthy with Globally Inspired, Vegetable-Forward Recipes, published in 2021, won a Gold Award in the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards and was nominated as a finalist in the 2022 IACP Cookbook Awards. Dr. Shiue is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine and has served as faculty at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Stanford University. She also serves on the boards of the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, San Francisco-Marin Food Bank and Meals on Wheels of San Francisco. Linda is the mother of two college-age daughters and in her free time enjoys walking in nature and exploring the world through food.