Hands-on Cooking Classes for Teens (13 to 17) at La Cocina que Canta
Tuesday 4 to 7:30 pm Sign Up
Complimentary – 14 per class
Optional: Family can join for dinner: Fee for adults, no charge for children. 5:30 pm departure from Ranch. Space is limited to 6 people. Sign up with reservations.
Wednesday 4 to 7:30 pm Sign Up
Complimentary – 14 per class
Optional: Family can join for dinner: Fee for adults, no charge for children. 5:30 pm departure from Ranch. Space is limited to 6 people. Sign up with reservations.
Hands-on Cooking Classes for Adults (13 and up)
Thursday 4 to 7:30 pm Sign Up
Fee – 14 per class
Sabrina Falquier, MD, CCMS, DIP ABLM (Fall-Key-Ay) loves delicious food! She is a board-certified Internal Medicine, Culinary Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine physician. She is bilingual and multicultural, born and raised in Mexico City to Swiss and American parents. Dr. Falquier worked as a primary care doctor for a prestigious multi-specialty group in San Diego, California, for over 15 years, where she was recognized yearly, for 12 years, as one of San Diego’s Top Doctors. In 2016 she began incorporating culinary medicine into her practice and the community and in 2020 founded Sensations Salud, which focuses on empowering people to better health through nutritional knowledge and culinary literacy through Culinary Medicine education and consulting. One of her areas of special focus and interest is teen culinary literacy. In this space, she co-created an 8-week program for teens for an entire school district in San Diego. This program showed positive changes in both food choices and cooking knowledge and the program outcomes were presented at three national conferences. She also loves to engage teenagers in the kitchen in different ways including: mystery box challenges, kindly-judged 3 course-meal events and teen and tween culinary events and programs. Dr. Falquier is the host of Culinary Medicine Recipe podcast. She is highly involved with Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center in National City, California. A non-profit organization that empowers all age groups through gardening, nutrition and culinary literacy. She acts as their consulting physician and is the current board chair of their board of directors. Her work there can be seen through the powerful documentary: The Kitchenistas which released in March 2021 and selected for 10 film festivals and multiple awards. She is also on the board of directors of the national Culinary Medicine Specialist Board, focusing on permeating culinary medicine into medical schools, health systems, foodservice industry and the community. She is clinical professor at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, UC San Diego Health Sciences and adjunct professor at Bastyr University. Dr. Falquier promotes culinary medicine throughout San Diego and internationally in a variety of ways and to varied age groups and audiences including: Hands-on cooking events, cooking demonstrations, both live and virtual, animated speaking engagements, expert panels, educational events and courses for medical students, graduate students, medical residents, chefs, teens and teen athletes, and community members. She does extensive recipe development, recipe modifications for optimization of health, and is active social media. She has been interviewed regarding food and health by media outlets including the Washington Post, The Union Tribune, Edible San Diego, San Diego Magazine, CBS news, and TeleMundo. For more information, please visit her website, or follow along @SensationsSalud on social media.
