Hands-On Cooking Classes and Chef’s Table Dinner with Linda Shiue
Week of December 13, 2025
Linda offers hands-on culinary experiences, 3.5 hours each, during which you will enjoy preparing your own meal along with fellow cooks. Classes take place at La Cocina Que Canta, our culinary center on Tuesday and Wednesday, at 4pm. In addition, Chef Linda will collaborate with La Cocina Que Canta’s Executive Chef Reyna Venegas and her team to create a special feast (with wine pairing!) on Thursday at 4:45pm.
Hands On Cooking Classes and Chefs Dinner Sign Up
Tuesday Hands-On Cooking Class 4:00 PM
Each class $145 (tax included). Class subject to change, check your weekly planner and schedule for updates. The maximum number of guests per class is 14.
Wednesday Hands-On Cooking Class 4:00 PM
Each class $145 (tax included). Class subject to change, check your weekly planner and schedule for updates. The maximum number of guests per class is 14.
Thursday Farm-to-Table Dining Experience 4:45 PM
Celebrate the abundance of our organic farm and the connection to community with a Farm-to-Table dining experience – a perfect blend of health, tradition, flavor, and fun! Cost is $150 per person, tax and wine pairing included. The maximum number of guests is 30. Sign Up at the Appointments Desk or through the link above.
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. She believes that the best medicine is prevention. Her cooking classes showcase seasonal produce, lavishly flavored with spices and fresh herbs. Her first cookbook, Spicebox Kitchen, was a 2022 Gold Award Winner in the Nautilus Book Awards and a Finalist in the 2022 IACP Awards. Her food writing has been published widely and she has been interviewed frequently on television and in print. Dr. Shiue is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine. 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.
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.