Culinary Medicine Cookshops

Culinary Medicine Cookshops Join us at our award winning cookshops, an innovative way to improve your success with healthy eating and show you how to use food as medicine.

Each month we’ll inspire you to cook easy, delicious meals everyone can enjoy! Each month we'll inspire you to cook easy, delicious meals everyone can enjoy. See fresh ideas to get you back into the kitchen
Learn tips and tricks to save time and money
Enjoy tasting plates from entree through to dessert
Drop your cholesterol, blood pressure and sugar levels
Lose weight and improve your wellness

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u'll learn how to use more seasonal and minimally processed foods lacking in most Australia diets. The cookshops are conducted by Sue Radd and her team of Accredited Practising Dietitians. You will experience a culinary adventure and receive medical nutrition advice as well.

08/09/2026

What was the traditional Mediterranean diet REALLY like — and what wasn’t it? 🫒🍅🌿

Come and discover why this delicious way of eating has become the most researched dietary pattern in the world — and, importantly, how you can make it work right here in Australia.

At The Magic Mediterranean Diet Cookshop, you’ll:
🥗 Take a quick quiz to see how Mediterranean your diet already is
🫒 Discover the key elements of the traditional Mediterranean eating pattern
🍅 Learn simple ways to put the science into practice in an Australian kitchen
❤️ Explore what this way of eating could do for your long-term health
🍽️ Enjoy multiple tasting plates throughout the evening
📚 Take home practical handouts, ideas and inspiration

I’ll be presenting the evening, assisted by two other healthcare professionals, in our Teaching Kitchen in Castle Hill.

📅 Tuesday 22 September 2026
⏰ 6–8 pm
📍 Teaching Kitchen, Castle Hill (Sydney)

The Magic Mediterranean Diet – The World’s Most Researched Way to Eat Deliciously and Protect Your Health.

This is one of our most popular cookshop topics and only limited places remain.

📞 Call 02 9899 5208 ASAP to grab one of the remaining seats — you’ll need to act fast!

🍆 If you think you don’t like eggplant, you may not have tried it like this!And no, not to be confused with an imam, an ...
08/09/2026

🍆 If you think you don’t like eggplant, you may not have tried it like this!

And no, not to be confused with an imam, an Islamic religious leader. 😊 Imam Bayildi is a classic dish with roots in Ottoman cuisine. So perhaps there is some historical link.

It’s essentially an eggplant halved lengthwise or sometimes cut into thick strips (fried until tender in EVOO), then generously filled with onion, garlic and tomatoes, then slowly cooked in the oven until meltingly tender, sweet and full of flavour. 🍅

You’ll find versions of Imam Bayildi throughout Greece, reflecting centuries of Ottoman influence on Greek cuisine. So it seemed particularly fitting to enjoy this one in Le**os, an island sitting just off the coast of Türkiye, and previously occupied by the Ottoman empire.

This version came sprinkled with a little local sheep’s cheese, although Imam Bayildi is often served without cheese and can be completely plant-based. 🌱

Add a refreshing salad and some good bread and you have a wonderful Mediterranean meal. It’s another example of the Greek ladera — literally the “oily” dishes where vegetables are cooked generously with olive oil.

Simple ingredients. Lots of vegetables. Plenty of olive oil. And absolutely delicious. 💙

When a salad exceeds all expectations… 💚This one at Marina Fish Restaurant in Nea Potidea, Halkidiki certainly did!A bou...
06/09/2026

When a salad exceeds all expectations… 💚

This one at Marina Fish Restaurant in Nea Potidea, Halkidiki certainly did!

A bounty of baby spinach, topped with walnuts, pomegranate, onion flakes and local goat cheese, all finished with a vibrant beetroot dressing. Simple ingredients, beautifully combined — and absolutely delicious.

I love seeing this kind of innovation with vegetables. Make salads this interesting and it becomes much easier to eat more veggies — and genuinely enjoy them! 🌿

06/09/2026

When your accommodation exceeds all expectations… 💙🇬🇷

Choosing where to stay when you travel can be a gamble — hotel, Airbnb, friends’ homes… sometimes you arrive disappointed. And sometimes you discover an absolute gem.
That was Birds Bay Resort in Petra, Le**os. I’m so glad I landed on this choice!

Sensational million-dollar views towards Molyvos, peace and quiet away from the hustle and bustle, easy car parking — and, as it turned out, wonderful Greek-Australian hosts! 🇬🇷🇦🇺
Thank you, Eleni and family, for such a warm welcome. Your accommodation and location would have to rank among the very best places I’ve stayed. If only you were a little closer to Sydney, I’d visit often!

And for writers like me? With those views and that tranquillity, it’s the perfect place to retreat, think and be inspired. ✍️🌊

Petra centre, with its excellent restaurants, is only a few minutes’ drive away. And one of the beauties of Le**os is its lovely, relatively stable climate — making it a destination worth considering well beyond the peak summer months.

What a find. What a view. What a place to stay. 💙

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🌿 Look what I found back home!I was thrilled to spot cime di rapa at my local organic market — a traditional leafy green...
03/09/2026

🌿 Look what I found back home!

I was thrilled to spot cime di rapa at my local organic market — a traditional leafy green particularly associated with southern Italy, including Puglia, one of the Mediterranean regions that helped shape what we now recognise as the traditional Mediterranean diet. 🇮🇹

Cime di rapa (also called rapini or broccoli rabe) has a distinctive slightly bitter, mustardy flavour, with tender leaves, stems and little broccoli-like flower buds all going into the pot.

I’m already thinking garlic, chilli and extra-virgin olive oil, perhaps tossed through pasta in the traditional southern Italian style. 🍝🌶️🫒

Dark leafy greens come in many different forms around the world — from Mediterranean wild and cultivated greens to the wonderful varieties found throughout Asia. They may look and taste different, but they’re nutritional powerhouses.

🥬 Aim to eat some dark leafy greens every day — a great habit for supporting your eyes, brain and blood vessels.

What’s your favourite leafy green?

03/09/2026

🥗 This is my kind of fast food! 🇬🇷

Whenever we’re in Nea Moudania, we stop at this little, less-touristy kitchen where the locals drop in for a paketo — Greek for takeaway package.

Some of my Mediterranean favourites were waiting: giant lima beans, flat green beans, beetroot, and a fresh green salad with dill and shallots. 🌿

The difference? This isn’t fast food assembled from ultra-processed ingredients. It’s real food, freshly cooked and ready to take home.

Simple. Plant and fibre-rich. Delicious. And incredibly convenient.

I wish we had more eateries like this in Australia! 💙

📚🇪🇸 My book has reached another Mediterranean kitchen!A lifestyle medicine colleague from Spain — a psychologist and hea...
03/09/2026

📚🇪🇸 My book has reached another Mediterranean kitchen!

A lifestyle medicine colleague from Spain — a psychologist and health coach — sent me this photo from his kitchen. It’s a lovely reminder that Food as Medicine brings together practitioners from many different health professions, united by the same goal: helping people live healthier lives.

We really are one big lifestyle medicine family. 💙🌿

02/09/2026

Greek café culture — still going strong! 🇬🇷

In Greece, a coffee is rarely just a coffee. It’s an invitation to sit, chat, linger and connect - sometimes even with a little pita or cake on the side. 🍰

Here in the mountain village of Agiassos, Le**os, café culture is alive and well. No rushing. Just time spent with others - something we could probably all use a little more of.

Research shows that social connection, slowing down and sharing time together can be good for our wellbeing too. 💙

How often do you make time just to sit and connect with others?

🇬🇷 Winding streets, new friends & lavender lemonade in Molyvos 💜🍋Molyvos, on the island of Le**os, is ridiculously prett...
02/09/2026

🇬🇷 Winding streets, new friends & lavender lemonade in Molyvos 💜🍋

Molyvos, on the island of Le**os, is ridiculously pretty - a hillside village made for wandering, with winding cobbled streets and surprises around every corner.

And then I found Symposium. Of course, being a nutrition scientist, the name immediately grabbed me! 😊 It also reminded me of a similarly named café I discovered on Paros.

Nestled in the heart of the old agora (market place), Symposium lives by the motto “Drinks & Tunes, Books & Friends” - and that pretty much sums it up. A cosy, artistic little hub to chill, chat and meet interesting people.

My cooling drink of choice? Homemade lemonade with lavender. 💜🍋 Absolutely divine! No photo unfortunately - I was far too busy chatting with a UCLA student (on a scholarship from Türkiye) I’d just met. And perhaps that’s exactly what Symposium is all about.

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31/08/2026

🇬🇷 One secret of the Mediterranean diet? They still COOK.

Behind the scenes in a Greek taverna, it’s all action — watermelon chopped for a complimentary dessert 🍉, fava soaking for tomorrow, and homemade tomato passata and sauces underway. 🍅

What stands out? So much is made from scratch. Very little ultra-processed food. Real ingredients. Real cooking. 🌿🫒

Maybe that’s a tradition worth keeping.

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