Culinary Medicine Roundtable: Reduce Picky Eating and Foster Healthy Food Relationships

Date: Friday, March 27, 2026

Time: 12:30 – 2:30 ET

Primary Audience: Healthcare Professionals, Culinary Professionals, and Culinary Medicine Educators

Moderator: Angela Fals, MD, FAAP, ABOM, CCMS

Speaker: Indira Abraham-Pratt, Ph.D., ABPP

Speaker: Christopher Schnell, RD

Description: Explore the foundation of responsive feeding through a powerful framework—a dynamic relationship between the clinical provider, parent, and child that supports the development of healthy eating habits for life. This session focuses on three core, evidence-based strategies grounded in culinary medicine: structure, parent modeling, and repeated exposure to new and healthy foods. This session includes a discussion of the Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding Model with a validated assessment tool. The combination of these approaches are shown to reduce picky eating, increase dietary variety, and foster healthy relationships with food.

By encouraging non-pressured feeding and actively involving children in food preparation, this session highlights how trust can be built not only between parent and child, but also between families and providers. Examples from a multidisciplinary, family-centered childhood obesity prevention and treatment program illustrate how this model is reinforced in practice. Participants will leave with actionable tools to build resilient, curious, and competent young eaters while supporting and empowering parents.