As a third grader in Girl Scouts, Deborah DeBord entered a cookbook contest. With her mother's help on the recipes and her father's help in wood-burning the cover, she took first place. The prize was a wire whisk which is still pulled from the crock of wooden spoons on her baker's rack. Deborah is a free-lance writer and author of numerous articles, short stories and educational materials. Her writing efforts in the disabled community include topics in the areas of therapeutic recreation, career choices, adaptive cooking techniques and travel. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas and for 25 years has taught and lectured at universities and high schools in Yugoslavia, China, Bulgaria, Guatemala, Mexico and the United States. Her life-long wanderlust and love of international cuisine has also led her to Portugal, Costa Rica, Spain, Great Britain, Ireland, Holland, France and Germany. This exposure to a wide-reaching array of techniques provides her a bountiful basket of choices. When not pursuing new recipes, Deborah enjoys snow shoeing, camping, needlework, old movies and putting her feet up in front of the fire, high in the Rocky Mountains.
Cooking with Feeling and Other Useful Senses: Adaptive culinary techniques for the visually impaired is a lively engaging book of adaptive culinary techniques for visually impaired and blind cooks. Addressing techniques at varying levels of difficulty, it speaks to cooks of all levels of experience. To illustrate the thorough, detailed descriptions of cooking techniques, a collection of recipes is offered. Each recipe is accompanied by a complete list of techniques required for its preparation, including page number references to each technique description. This section includes recipes and menus generously loaned from many cookbooks, as well as original recipes, in order to re-create the reality of today's kitchen. The personal touch and dashes of light humor encourage cooks in various challenging situations to safely dive in, mess around and enjoy themselves.