Cooking remained a hobby of mine for quite a long timedand i was losing my vision at the same time when i was voraciously teaching myself how to cook and reading all sorts of cook books. So just learning, over time, to rely on my remaining four senses much more so than my sense of vision, was really how i got back into the kitchen again. And i actually think with my sense of sight out of the ture, i became much more of a annuanced cook in the kitchen.
Christine Ha fell in love with cooking in college when she tried to recreate the Vietnamese dishes her mother had cooked for her as a child. But when a rare neurological condition left Christine legally blind by age 24, she worried she might never be able to cook again.
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