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. These days I'm spending more time at my food blog, spiceboxtravels.com. Please visit me there and follow me 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.
© 2010-12 Linda Shiue. All Rights Reserved.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Images of San Francisco's
Chinatown, Year of the Dragon
2012
February 15, 2012 01:05PM - 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
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Thank you all for the
warm welcome back!”
February 18, 2012 11:57AM - “Thanks so much for
stopping by! Yes,
spiceboxtravels.com is
my new
food blog and…”
February 17, 2012 09:39AM - “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
Linda Shiue's Links
- Follow me on Twitter
- @spiceboxtravels
- My Food Blog
- Spicebox Travels
- ___ 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
Baby Einstein = Baby Genius?
By Linda Shiue
I was comparing notes the other day with some friends who, like me, watched an awful lot of TV in the 70s and 80s... starting with Schoolhouse Rock, Electric Company and Sesame Street, and advancing to Scooby Doo, Mork and Mindy, and The Love Boat. Not recommended,… Read full post »
Eat Pie for A Cause!
Is There a Wrong Way to Praise Your Kids?
How NOT to Keep a Secret
My husband loves surprises just as much as a little boy
does. In the almost 18 years we have been together, he has
surprised me countless times, and I have sometimes felt the
surprise was more for him, the surprise maker, than for myself, the
recipient. His joy at successfully surprising/… Growing Up So Fast
I spend much of my time with my children wishing they would grow up faster, meaning be less clingy. (Not climbing into my bed every night to co-sleep, so that my sleep is disturbed and I wake up with a foot in my face.) But then when they show me that/… Read full post »
Multitasking Brain?
You have heard of "mommy brain," which refers to the subtle memory loss people attribute to the multitasking required to keep kids alive these days. Mothers are credited with superior multitasking skills (throwing in a load of laundry, preparing lunches, making a mental to-do list for the day,… Read full post »
Vitamin D- Your New Supervitamin
Here's a little ray of sunshine: Did you know that your body makes Vitamin D? Almost like plants and photosynthesis, your body makes Vitamin D when exposed to ultraviolet (UVB) rays from sunshine. In fact, Vitamin D is known as the "sunshine vitamin" for this… Read full post »
Two Women Share the Nobel Prize in Medicine
European Pressphoto Agency, Associated Press
Today was an exciting day for science, women, and mothers as the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to three scientists, two of whom are women. Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak were jointly awarded the Prize today for/… Read full post »
Sleep More, Get Fewer Colds
In this stressful economic climate, it's easy to focus more on outside forces than on taking care of yourself. While we may not be able to control what's going on in the world, we can actively manage our health through good lifestyle choices. A few basic elements of being healthy… Read full post »
Green Gardening with Goats
I thought I
was seeing things the first time I passed by a large herd of goats
grazing the hillside of the water department-- goats in the city?
But after the second, then third year, I almost forgot to stop and
look at the wonder that is the greenest form of/… Coping With a Child's Diagnosis
Every parent wants a world of limitless possibilities
for her child. When this world is suddenly altered, it can
take time to adjust. Today, I would like to share with you
what it was like for me when my daughter was given a new diagnosis.
My experience is personal, but/… I Love Trash!
Art by Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch may have been the first and most famous American to extol the virtues of trash. Move over Oscar, San Francisco has a thing or two to show you! It is not surprising that a city that banned plastic shopping… Read full post »
Walking As Exercise?
I hate going to the gym.
Don't get me wrong; I practice what I preach, which is moderate, regular exercise most days of the week. My exercise of choice is walking. While over the years, I have been, at various times, a regular at the gym, a jogger, a cyclist, and a… Read full post »
Birthday Party Etiquette
Mama, What's For Lunch?
School is back in session, and that means making 5 lunches a week to keep your kids fueled and ready to learn. There is always the option of school lunch, but that may not be the most desirable or nutritious choice for everyone. (There are some really inspiring ideas, such as/… Read full post »
Is This Still Good?
Admit it- sometimes, when you're hungry, in a rush, or just not paying attention, you'll grab that unopened yogurt in the back of the fridge and eat it, past its expiration date. Most of us will do the "sniff test" before discarding those restaurant leftovers that look so appetizing.&nbs… Read full post »
11th Annual Power to the Peaceful Festival
Flu Alert!
Fall is here and that means back to school, and back to flu season. This year, in addition to the regular "seasonal flu," there is the widely feared strain known as H1N1, formerly known as "swine flu." The pandemic began to circulate in California over the summer, and has increased/… Read full post »
Becoming your parents' caregiver
In traditional Asian cultures, sons are prized over daughters, with the assumption that the son would not only carry on the family name, but also care for the parents in their older years. In modern times, this is often far from the truth. It seems that daughters most often a/… Read full post »
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