Cooking without looking was the first braille cookbook I ever had. I was a student at Kentucky school for the Blind so all is I had to do was walk across the parking lot to APH to buy it. Bill Deatherage
Sent from my iPad > On Jul 11, 2020, at 12:22 PM, Marie Rudys via Cookinginthedark > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The braille version of Cooking Without Looking has been around for a long > time. However, I do not know if APH still reprints it. I had a copy until > it was too worn out to read anymore, but I did type it into the computer a > long time ago and saved the text file. > > Marie > > > >> On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 8:11 AM meward1954--- via Cookinginthedark < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> It was always only Braille. Thanks for looking that up. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> On Behalf >> Of >> Jeanne Fike via Cookinginthedark >> Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 9:55 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: Jeanne Fike <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [CnD] More books written for the blind >> >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
