At the Q & A session during our visit to St. Anne Catholic School last month a first-grader wanted to know, “How do you cook if you’re blind?”
People who are blind can cook, and lots of them are very good at it. “I’m just not one of them,” I said with a shrug. A reporter was in the audience, too, and I had to laugh when I read her description of my cooking skills in the article she wrote about our visit in the Barrington Courier Review afterward:
Although her husband does most of the cooking at home, Finke said she enjoys making salads. She just has to stay away from the stove and sharp knives.
Well, it’s not exactly what I meant, but hey, it is good practice. Anyway, here are some photos from the visit:
Whitney and I spent the whole day at St. Anne’s. Here, we’re with fifth through eighth graders.
- We also made individual class visits.
Made me smile! I know all about competent, capable, intelligent, educated, witty wonderful blind people who can’t figure out how to make a peanut butter sandwich (if there is a spouse on hand)! 😉
Good to hear I’m not alone. I bet Mike would agree!
Hi Beth ~ you and Whitney are lookin’ good in your Saint Anne’s pics! So glad you are doing well! We enjoy reading your blog at VSC and we all send you fond hellos. Be well, Beth…and for heaven’s sake, stay away from those sharp knives! Kate Westcott, VSC Receptionist
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Will do. I promise!
I thought I read somewhere that Ray Charles liked to fry pork chops for his dinner. His friends would laugh because he would didn’t need to turn on the kitchen lights so he was frying chops in the dark.
Oh that Ray. He sure was a rascal.
I always knew he had good chops.
So what do you use? Dull knives?
Kathy
You know, one of the kids asked me that after I told them we hide the sharp knives. The answer: yes! I use dull steak knives — when I cut myself, it doesn’t go deep!
Oh, and I tried to explain how I cut celery into little bits for my salad and told them the pieces are not all the same size, and my salads probably don’t look very pretty. “They sure taste good, though!
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Hopefully using a wine opener presents no such problems!
And when it does: screw tops!
Your school visit looked like fun.
It was! So many fun things happened during our visit to St. Ann’s that day, and the third graders even sent me home with a CD of them singing a song the music teacher wrote (she accompanies them on piano, with some very nice chord changes). Any time I’m feeling blue, all I have to do is put the CD player on to hear their sweet young voices chorusing out a “Thank you, thank you for coming to our school!” and I’m cured.
Not being a good cook and having to stay away from the stove is quite a leap. It makes you sound like a raw fruitarian.
Glad you had a fun school trip.
As longer you have ppl believing you’re dangerous in the kitchen, the better for all of us. Great pics! Love hearing what’s on the kids’ minds.
Henry and I are also dangerous in the kitchen…and we can see.
Plus you both are dangerous with puns. Re: comment on chops above. Ugh!
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