d o c t o r a n d m a m a
Linda Shiue
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
- Birthday
- December 31
- Bio
- I am a physician and spend my free time with my husband and kids, reading everything in sight, eating, traveling, and cooking meals inspired by my travels. Please visit my food blog, beautifulmemorablefood.wordpress.com, now renamed "spicebox travels." I am now on Twitter @spiceboxtravels.
Disclaimer: Health information presented here is not intended nor recommended as a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your own physician or other qualified health care professional regarding any medical questions or conditions.
© 2010-11 Linda Shiue. All Rights Reserved.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of
Service
January 15, 2012 11:10PM - Pain d'Epices au Chocolat
(Chocolate Spice Bread)
September 08, 2011 06:01PM - A Food Tour of Paris with
David Lebovitz as My Muse
September 05, 2011 03:23PM - Bicycles, Books, and Ginger
Beer on the 4th of July
July 01, 2011 02:32AM - Eat Your Flowers! Chive Flower
Omelet
June 06, 2011 10:22PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Much joy and peace to
you, Kathy.”
December 27, 2011 11:30AM - “Thanks Catherine! My
kids + I loved this!”
October 29, 2011 08:27PM - “@Gemini74, thanks so
much! I am glad that your
family enjoyed
this recipe and
tha…”
October 18, 2011 11:28PM - “Awesome.”
September 23, 2011 03:52PM - “Good luck in your new
school!”
September 16, 2011 12:33AM
Linda Shiue's Links
- My Food Blog
- Beautiful, Memorable Food
- ___ and Culture
- Mean [Little] Girls
- Perseverance
- Brain Scans Can Read Your Mind
- Health Care Reform and Insurance
- Havasupai and DNA Research
- Being Ian McEwan
- Taiwan's American Idol Channels Whitney Houston
- Weight Watchers and McDonalds Team Up
- Cookies You Can Believe In
- Don't Let Them Eat Cake: Jenny Craig Goes to Paris
- NYC Children and Pop Tarts
- In My Life
- Fire Destroys Neighborhood in SF Suburb
- A Wedding Day
- 15 Minutes for Fifth Company Village, Trinidad, and Naipaul
- Being A Girl in the 1970s
- How Not To Keep A Secret
- Becoming Your Parents' Caregiver
- My Little Pink Bedroom
- Inspiring
- What's Even Better Than Composting? Seeds From Your Kitchen
- MLK Asked: What Are You Doing For Others?
- A Photo Tour of San Francisco's Murals on Dia de los Muertos
- Live Ammunition Removed from Soldier's Skull
- Springtime at Kew Gardens, England
- Teaching Compassion to Kindergartners
- Holi, Indian Festival of Color
- Trinidad Carnival
- A Day of Service to Honor Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Civil Rights Through A Child's Eyes: MLK Jr.
- How to Help Haiti Today
- Altruism
- How Green Feels: A Meditation on Color
- Green Gardening With Goats
- Two Women Share the Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Eat Pie for a Cause!
- Multicultural Children's Books
- Ingenuity, Resilience, Chronic Illness and a Cute Pet Trick
- Beautiful, Memorable Food
- Mango Season in Hilo, with Mango Mochi
- Quiche Mexicaine
- Hawaiian French Toast with Coconut Syrup
- Chinese Braised Pork Stew
- Guinness Stout Three Ways
- Molecular Gastronomy: Modernist Cuisine
- Persian Walnut-Pomegranate Chicken Stew (Fesenjan)
- Trinidadian Callaloo
- Not-Brazilian Meyer Lemon Caipirinha
- Vietnamese Shaking Beef (Bo Luc Lac)
- Valentine's Day Aphrodisiacs
- Mango Lassi Frozen Yogurt Dosas
- Chinese Dumplings and New Year Food
- Polenta with Chili Ragu
- Welsh Rabbit for Rabbit Buns
- Lentil Soup for a Small Planet
- Prosperous Pineapple Upside-Down Cakes
- Moroccan Dates
- Bittersweet Chocolate Pistachio Cookies and Salted Caramel Shortbread
- Dickens and Mulled Wine
- Holiday Cookie Bling
- Thanksgiving International Relations
- Training Meals
- Mexican Spiced Pumpkin Flan for Day of the Dead
- Naturally Blondies
- Rejuvenate Me with Apples
- If Gauguin Made Bostock
- White Bean, Prosciutto and Arugula Bruschetta
- Cambodian Coconut Lemongrass Curry Fish Mousse (Amok)
- Love and Mooncakes
- The Secret Life of Beets
- Strawberry Victoria Sponge Cake
- Socialist Scones
- Love Is... Sangria Verde
- Ginger-Peach Tarts to Make You Live Forever
- Corn and Maple Sugar Spoonbread Brulee
- Caramelized Tomato Tarte Tatin
- Maltese Tomato Bread Sandwich
- Who's Afraid of Asian Dessert Soups?
- Watermelon on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
- Dulce de Leche Ice Cream Alfajores
- Grilled Eggplant Rolls with Zesty Minted Feta
- Opa! Salon Hot Dogs
- Of Old Jamaica Pour Three Strong
- Chutney: the Food and the Music
- Get Out of San Francisco Picnic
- Silk Road Lamb Burgers
- Looking for Shrimp in All the Wrong Places
- Spicy California Rolls
- Seeking World Peas
- Spotted Dick and Other Curiosities of the English Larder
- What the Dads Cooked for Mother's Day Brunch
- Cooking Pastelles with Auntie Doll
- For My Mother, A Different Flavor of Granola
- West African Groundnut Stew
- Egg Salad for Afternoon Tea
- Vegetarian Meat
- Sesame-Ginger Chicken Wings and a Lesson in Frugality
- Chilaquiles Verdes for the Morning After San Patricio's Day
- Chocolate Guinness Cake
- Secret (Menus) and Lies
- Tea and Infamy
- Frijoles, Platanos y Mojitos for Our Cuban Chinese Tio
- Ice Cream for the Jamaican Bobsled Team
- Red Hot Red Velvet Cake
- In the Mood for Love, A Vintage Chinese Valentine
- Samoas: Tell Me About Your Cookie
- Chips and Salsa... and Chapulines
- "It Takes A Village" Meyer Lemon-Scented Rice Pudding
- Love, and Taiwanese Beef Stew Noodle Soup
- A Decadent Brunch, New Orleans Style
- My First Quiche
- Taiwanese Hotpot: Everyone's a Cook
- Curry Tattoo: A Tribute to the Cuisine of Trinidad
- Thanksgiving Without the Turkey
- Peranakan Food in Singapore: Kaya Toast
- Japanese Fish Waffles: Taiyaki
- What Your Doctor Isn't Telling You
- Dangerous Fashion, Part Two: Botox for Teens
- Dangerous Fashion: Circle Lenses Risk Blindness for Beauty
- Pesticides and ADHD
- Research On Hallucinogens for Medical Use
- Would You Want A Robot Doctor?
- Planning a Vacation Can Make You Happy
- Hospital Food
- Supersizing Serving Sizes
- When Your Body Is Donated To Science, Involuntarily
- Genetic Screening or Eugenics?
- The UK Will Now Cover Paternity Leave. Should We?
- Can Weight Loss Drugs Kill You?
- When NOT Composting Leads to Divorce
- Are Antidepressants Effective?
- 5 Tips for Happy, Healthy Holidays
- Flu Alert!
- Is This Still Good?
- Walking As Exercise?
- Sleep More, Get Fewer Colds
- Vitamin D- Your New Supervitamin
- Multitasking Brain?
- Is This a Cold, the Fu, or Allergies?
- Why Am I Still Coughing?
- New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines 2009
- Healthy Travel with Kids
- True Confessions: Parenting
- New Year's Resolutions from My First Grader
- Stealing Halloween Candy at School
- How Not to Impress Famous People
- Hearing Lost, Confidence Found
- A Summer Reading List for Raising a Globally Aware Reader
- Why I Torture My Kids with Chinese School
- Dave Eggers' 826 Valencia: Hatching Young Writers
- Guest Post: Banana + Chocolate for Valentine's Day
- Rat Brains and Chemistry Sets
- Mama, What's for Lunch?
- Birthday Party Etiquette
- Coping With a Child's Diagnosis
- Growing Up So Fast
- Is There a Wrong Way to Praise Your Kids?
- Baby Einstein=Baby Genius?
- Getting Your Kids to Talk
- Kids and Imaginary Friends
- Sibling Rivalry
- When Is a Kid Old Enough to Call Friends on the Phone?
- What I'm Reading
- My posts on Food52
- My articles on Salon
- Beautiful, Memorable Food
- asia! through asian eyes
- Motherlode
- showthelove.com
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service
Pain d'Epices au Chocolat (Chocolate Spice Bread)
Bicycles, Books, and Ginger Beer on the 4th of July
I am daydreaming of those lazy summers of my youth, where bicycle trips to the local library would reward me with global adventures, if only in my imagination. I was in 5th grade when I stumbled upon a tattered paperback copy of Five Fall Into Adventure, one of the
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Spring Along the Embarcadero, San Francisco
Yesterday was my daughters' last day of school and today we celebrated with one of our favorite family activities, a bike ride down the Embarcadero. We pedaled this storied boulevard from the ultra-modern Mission Bay campus of the University of California, San Francisco to… Read full post »
Quiche for Cinco de Mayo? Since when was quiche Mexican food?
Well, it's not. But there is an explanation for why I was inspired to make a quiche with Mexican flavors. Today is Cinco de Mayo, a day of revelry celebrated by Americans of all cultures in honor of
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Have you ever sprouted an avocado pit in a cup of water on your kitchen windowsill? For many of us, this is a first step in exploring the world of science. It's a fun and satisfying way to awaken your inner gardener.
I had fun reading a recent NYT article, Seeds… Read full post »
What would be your last wish on your final morning in Hawaii? Catch the sunrise? A last minute dip into the Pacific? Or perhaps one last exploration of tide pools, looking for crabs, starfish, and sea turtles?
After a glorious week in the sun, while the rest of us were… Read full post »
Mother-in-Law Knows Best
St. Patrick's Day is this Thursday and I've been thinking up a menu to celebrate the day. There's nothing wrong with that old Irish-American standby, corned beef and cabbage, but if you want to try something a little different, I've created a menu ba… Read full post »
The Encyclopedia of Molecular Gastronomy:“Modernist Cuisine"
The New York Times’ Michael Ruhlman reviewed the just released Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, the 6 volume encyclopedia of molecular gastronomy self-published by Nathan Myhrvold. It was a labor of love costing somewhere between a reported $1… Read full post »
Valentine's Day Aphrodisiacs, with Recipe
I read an alluring post on Saveur.com that is just in time for Valentine's Day. It's a slideshow on foods from around the globe that are thought to be aphrodisiacs. Some of them are universal: chocolate, oysters, and chillies. Others, while well known by the ancie/… Read full post »
Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year 4709, or 2011 in the Western calendar. It's the year of the Rabbit, the fourth sign in the Chinese zodiac. If you were born in 1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, or 2011, this is your year… Read full post »
MLK Day of Service 2011: What Are You Doing For Others?
Soup for a Small Planet
Can a bowl of soup save the world?
At the age of 21, I was given the task of helping to figure this out. One of the first jobs I had after college was as a research assistant at an institute called the World Hunger Program. This was a think… Read full post »
New Year's Resolutions from My First Grader
We're coming to the close of the first week of 2011-- how are you doing with your resolutions?
I am pleased to report that I have kept my one resolution so far. My resolution was to try to see the positive in at least one challenging moment per day. I… Read full post »
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