Cooking Blind

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Amar Latif, entrepreneur and presenter, became the first blind contestant on BBC One's Celebrity MasterChef in 2019. During the series he inspired viewers, sighted, blind and partially sighted, as well as the MasterChef judges with this recipes and flair for flavours.

Amar is one cook speaking to Sheila Dillon about his culinary inspiration and his rejuvenated enthusiasm for cooking. Sheila also speaks to double world champion, Paralympic Gold medal winning tandem cyclist, lifetime home cook and healthy food blogger Lora Fachie MBE about what role cooking has played in her life and career. And blind writer Simon Mahoney explains why he was inspired to write his first cookbook when he taught himself to cook after his wife, "his eyes" passed away.

Sheila hears food stories and kitchen inspiration for aspiring cooks, whether sighted or blind.

Presented by Sheila Dillon. Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury.

Transcript

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0:28.4	podcast.
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0:37.0	Hi, I'm Zand Van Tulliken
0:41.0	and I'm Kimberly Wilson.
0:42.0	We're here to tell you about our
0:43.7	podcast made of stronger stuff. I'm a psychologist and Zand is a medical doctor and
0:49.1	we're bringing together our specialties to take a tour of the human body.
0:53.8	Each week we hone in on a specific body part from the eyes and lungs to the appendix or the
0:58.9	Vegas nerve and we ask how we can understand it better, ourselves more,
1:03.6	and combine the body and mind to produce positive change.
1:06.9	So subscribe to Made of Stronger Stuff on BBC Sounds. Welcome to our world from cooking to culture, politics to pleasure. We hope you enjoy it.
1:27.0	We are about to meet 20 celebrities. We are about to come face to face with their cooking.
1:34.8	I'm thinking what a blind guy in a cooking challenge. What am I doing here?
1:42.0	The voice of TV Travel Presenting What am I doing here?
1:43.0	The voice of TV travel presenter Amalatif, semi-finalist on Celebrity Master Chef in 2020.
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