Blindness/Low Vision

Item Description

In her kitchen, Christine Ha possesses a rare ingredient that most professionally-trained chefs never learn to use: the ability to cook by sense. After tragically losing her sight in her twenties, this remarkable home cook, who specializes in the mouthwatering, wildly popular Vietnamese comfort foods of her childhood, as well as beloved American standards that she came to love growing up in Texas, re-learned how to cook. Using her heightened senses, she turns out dishes that are remarkably delicious, accessible, luscious, and crave-worthy. Millions of viewers tuned in to watch Christine sweep the thrilling Season 3 finale of MasterChef USA, and here they can find more of her deftly crafted recipes. They’ll discover food that speaks to the best of both the Vietnamese diaspora and American classics, personable tips on how to re-create delicious professional recipes in a home kitchen, and an inspirational personal narrative bolstered by Ha’s background as a gifted writer. Recipes from My Home Kitchen will braid together Christine’s story with her food for a result that is one of the most compelling culinary tales of her generation.

After losing her sight in her twenties, Ha had to re-learn to cook without sight. Using adaptive techniques, coupled with years of culinary experience, Christine turns out dishes that speak to the best of Asian and American comfort food. Wrote one reviewer, "Recipes from My Home Kitchen is one of those cookbooks that you can make virtually anything in the book and it will turn out just wonderfully. This is a comfort food cookbook, and people who are expecting some fancy Asian food will be disappointed. The recipes are simple, using simple ingredients, but they taste wonderful!"

Package also contains:

1 Liquid Measuring Cup for Salad Dressing.  Stop wasting dressing and other condiments with this measuring cap.  The cup dispenses one serving (2 tbsps) of salad dressing at a time, and screws onto top of most store-bought plastic bottles of salad dressing.  BPA-free. Color:Green

Two - 1 tsp auto-measuring spouts for Oil and Vinegar.  Measuring made easy for the cook who does not want to have to worry about finding a cup or spoon on the fly.

Item Special Note

Christine Ha is the first ever blind contestant and season 3 winner of the competitive amateur cooking show, “MasterChef" USA, on FOX with Gordon Ramsay, Graham Elliot, and Joe Bastianich. She defeated over 30,000 home cooks across America to secure the coveted MasterChef title, a $250,000 cash prize, and a cookbook deal.

Winners of this bid will recieve Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of Christine Ha's "Recipes from My Home Kitchen, Asian and American Comfort Food" in braille.