Smile. Just keep practicing and you won't ... It probably isn't as bad as you think, but with the right help you'll get there. You've taken the right step in asking and somehow I think it will all work out
Heidi -----Original Message----- From: cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org [mailto:cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org] On Behalf Of jessica Sent: 24 January 2012 15:33 To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Subject: Re: [CnD] cutting food It is me who thinks I look like a 4 year old. sent from my BrailleNote ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Belville" <lisa...@frontier.com To: <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Date sent: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:33:01 -0600 Subject: Re: [CnD] cutting food Jessica, who is telling you touching your food makes you look like a four year old? Because if it's your parents, they need to learn the difference between sloppy eating habits and well used alternative, nonvisual techniques. IMO, there's a huge difference between discretely touching a piece of meet versus running your hands all over the plate to locate the meet and pushing it into other food or right off the plate in the process. One is a quick nonvisual way to locate the meat while the other is more of a sloppy action that would cause attention to you if you pushed off the food. Here again, the advice you're getting is from blind people in all walks of life in all stages of blindness and in all levels of proficiency. The common thread here is that you will need, at least initially, to touch your food. If you're too embarrassed to do it in public, then do it in the privacy of your kitchen when no one is around. Lisa Belville lisa...@frontier.com missktlab1...@frontier.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jessica Brown" <jessicabrown...@gmail.com To: <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 2:41 PM Subject: Re: [CnD] cutting food It is not just what works for me. It is also about not looking like a 4 year old in public. I understand that exceptions need to be made for blind people but touching your food is taking it too far! On 1/23/12, Tom Dickhoner <tdickho...@fuse.net> wrote: Again, as far as the fingers are concerned, I can't remember anyone frowning on me using them except for teachers of the blind who made a big deal out of doing that. I believe that good eddiquette is important. I don't believe in picking up food from the plate and putting it in my mouth unless it is fried chicken, a hamburger, french fries and the like. As long as you use the fork or spoon and use the fingers as a guide, I see nothing wrong with that. We're blind, others in the restaurant or meeting are eating and watching what they are eating or talking to others. The only gawking would be if one's head is in the plate, picking up food that should be eaten with a fork or just bad manners. Other than that whatever else you do is fine. Jessica, I didn't know you are only 16. In time you will mature, and you will learn to do what works best for you. -----Original Message----- From: Sisi Ben-Simon <fireb...@netvision.net.il Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 2:25 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Subject: Re: [CnD] cutting food I use bread sometimes but I try not to use fingers when I'm not alone, especially in a restaurant. I prefer to cut a piece and eat it and then cut another one, not the whole stake or pancake at once. This way it really doesn't matter where I started and where I should be cutting. When I'm in a restaurant or a hotel eating an omlet or some other fluffy egg I just put it on a piece of toast so I don't have to struggle with food sliding down the plate or on the table. Jesica you're only 16 so you have a lot of time to learn and find out whatever works for you. Take care Sisi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Dickhoner" <tdickho...@fuse.net To: <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 9:07 PM Subject: Re: [CnD] cutting food AA pusher is a piece of bread or a eating utensel such as a knofe that allows you to be able to get the food from the late to the fork. You hold the bread to the food, you find it, and you guide the bread to the fork. It is supposed to look dignified, and it is suppose to avoid using fingers. I have no problem with fingers. 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