Get nominating!
I’m very honoured to be judging the “Inclusion“ category award in this prestigious BBC event. There are six other categories too. I’m sure that many of you will know someone who perfectly fits the bill. Please do take the…
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Know an ambitious blind person?
If I can win, anyone can! This international prize was the key impetus behind my Baking Blind world tour www.bakingblind.com and the videos demonstrating that blindness or any other disability needn’t hold anyone back. Now is the time for anyone…
Champion community spirit
Start your New Year by celebrating someone who makes a difference to our local lives: the BBC Radio Solent Community Heroes Awards I’m honoured to have been asked to judge one of the awards (Inclusion) but also wanted lots of…
Veteran is more than just a blind baker
On top of my Baking Blind adventures: cooking around the world www.bakingblind.com. I’ve also been running my business, Disability Dynamics www.disabilitydynamics.co.uk since I left the Royal Navy in 1999 after losing my sight. The business has been devoted to helping…
Aria with sweet and sour
There’s a feast of home-cooked Chinese food topped with a song from opera singer, Mei, for you to see and hear at Imagine a warm sunny day in Chongqing, China. Wide expanses of lawn and gardens surrounded by apartment…
Communicating through cooking
Sesame oil, fresh ginger, garlic and star anise are some of the key flavours of cooking in Chongqing in China. Charlie combined them all with beef to create a rich, succulent dish in his two-tier kitchen hanging over the…
One of the best experiences
Meet the fabulously delightful Charlie His wildly eclectic back-packers hostel in Chongqing, China, is perched on the very lip of the Yangtze River gorge. The building extends down the side of the gorge so, while we could…
My taste buds failed me
Probably the most daunting professional kitchen of my whole world tour: this was an authentic Chinese restaurant in one of the historic areas of Chongqing, the largest city in the world. Head Chef, Mr Dong, created two perfect dishes in…
Masterclass: Chinese breakfast dumplings.
Nothing like those floating-on-stew versions. These are delicate morsels of pork and leek wrapped in thin dough “skins” and steamed for the people of Chongqing to eat on their way to another busy working day – and so much healthier…
Pleasing powerful Ladies who Lunch.
Imagine your very first cookery demonstration: not even in a kitchen; supported by a chef who barely speaks English; an audience of the most powerful women in the world’s largest city. Daunting or what? I desperately fell back on the…