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Podcast: THE SJ CHILDS SHOW-Building a Community of Inclusion
Episode: Episode 315-Cooking Without Sight: The Blind Kitchen Revolution with Debra Erickson
Description: Send us Fan MailWhat happens when you're passionate about cooking but can't see the ingredients? For Debra, founder of The Blind Kitchen, vision loss became the catalyst for culinary innovation rather than limitation.Debra's story begins unexpectedly – she wasn't a natural cook, growing up as one of twelve children with limited kitchen experience. When retinitis pigmentosa claimed most of her vision in her fifties, she made a remarkable decision: instead of abandoning cooking, she enrolled in culinary school as their first legally blind student. There, she developed adaptive techniques that have since transformed kitchen ac...