Good going, Marie. I have both versions from BARD but have never actually sat down and copied it. Maybe I should before I get too old and decrepit, haha. I’m hitting 68 on August 24 so I think I better get cracking, haha. Lora and Firefly
Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Marie Rudys via Cookinginthedark Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 12:23 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: Marie Rudys Subject: Re: [CnD] More books written for the blind 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 < cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> wrote: > It was always only Braille. Thanks for looking that up. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cookinginthedark <cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org> On Behalf > Of > Jeanne Fike via Cookinginthedark > Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 9:55 AM > To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org > Cc: Jeanne Fike <jmw9...@gmail.com> > 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 > <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> 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 <cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org> On > > Behalf Of gail johnson via Cookinginthedark > > Sent: Friday, July 10, 2020 7:35 PM > > To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org > > Cc: gail johnson <gailj...@gmail.com> > > Subject: Re: [CnD] More books written for the blind > > > > What a hoot. > > Milk shake sounds good. > > _______________________________________________ > > Cookinginthedark mailing list > > Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org > > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cookinginthedark mailing list > > Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org > > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
