Hi, The Cooking with Feeling book is still abailable from NBP but only as ebraille. If one purchases it, one is downloading 5 braille volumes to one's computer or a notetaker. Jeanne
On 7/11/20, meward1954--- via Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> wrote: > There was also Cooking with Feeling by Deborah DeBord. This is at National > Braille Press, if they still have it. The publication date is 1997, so it > is a bit more up to date, though far from recent. There are five > soft-cover > Braille volumes. The book is actually a combination of two different > books, > a three-part series called Cooking with Feeling Recipes and a two-part one > called Cooking with Feeling Techniques. Techniques are well-described. I > believe she also had a bread machine book. I don't know if there are > accessible bread machines now. I don't have one because I think that a > machine would take all the fun out of making bread. What would be the > point, if I couldn't knead out all my frustrations? > > There is another Braille Book on BARD, > A leaf from our table / BRA10152 > Porter, Marie; Catholic Guild. 2 volumes. A production of Catholic Guild. > > This book was put together by a group of blind women. I believe that these > women all cooked and shared these recipes at meetings. They had several > other books back in the 1970s. The book on making Bread, which was just > called, Bread, is the one I used as a primer for my own learning how to > make > bread. They also had a salad and dessert book. Maybe there were others as > well, but the only one I had was the one on bread. > > So many of the cookbooks I have seen by blind people's groups were rather > obviously copied from somewhere else. I've seen some highly visual > descriptions even in Cooking in the Dark cookbooks, though recipes I know > are Dale's are very blind-friendly. So just because it was put out by an > ACB or NFB affiliate doesn't mean that all the recipes have been > test-driven > by a real blind person. Somebody asks around for recipes and people just > copy them out. They may or may not have cooked them, but they haven't > necessarily adapted the instructions. > > I haven't seen any audio books on BARD written specifically for blind > cooks. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > gail johnson via Cookinginthedark > Sent: Friday, July 10, 2020 7:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: gail johnson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [CnD] More books written for the blind > > What a hoot. > Milk shake sounds good. > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
