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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Cooking alongside another young blind woman in China, together we learned a classic chocolate Mousse during a session with Intercontinental chef, frank ( ). Lisa was intrigued by the talking thermometer and I was too by the practical demonstration as…
People have often asked me about how I can manage with no sight at all. Here are some of my most important aids: Voice-activated. Voice activated is all about using one’s voice to make things happen – rather than…
