Cooking Without Looking

Cooking Without Looking

The Cooking Without Looking TV Show Podcast introduces People who are Blind. They talk about their lives as REAL Blind People. Discover what Living Blind is like. We‘re changing the way we see Blindness!

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July 25, 2025 30 mins

Have any of your recipes ever turn out not the way you expected them to?

It happens to all of us!

Watch as Cooking Without Looking TV Show hosts Allen Preston and Sylvia Stinson Perez welcome Cody Westcott.  He prepared his Banana Chocolate Chip cookies.

He discusses how expected them to turn out one way, and they turned out another way.

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Hosts Allen Preston and Sylvia Stinson Perez welcome a long-time friend of the show. Twenty-four years ago she was Jerilyn Higgins. Today, she is Chef Jerilyn Higgins, and an author of a new cookbook, “Look Who’s in the Kitchen: A Cookbook and Training Guide That Empowers New, Aspiring, or Returning Blind Cooks in the Kitchen!” Chef Jerilyn will prepare her Chicken Fajitas using the George Foreman Grill and Magic Bullet Blender.

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Anne Hatton is an Assistive Technology Training Specialist  

Lighthouse for the Blind of the Palm Beaches.  She's also a newlywed.  Both her and her husband are Blind.

Anne talks about how they met, and life together as a couple who is blind.

#ChangingTheWayWeSeeBlindness

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Come take a trip with us to Brazil.

Meet Samara Ramos.  She's a 26-year-old woman who's. been blind since birth with retinitis pigmentosa. 

We talk food and cooking.  Samara is working on her cooking technique, and trying to gain confidence.

She is an English teacher who is working to achieve her Master's Degree.

Find out what American food is called in Brazil.

#ChangingTheWayWeSeeBlindness

If you want learn more about her Brazilia...

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Hosts Allen Preston and Sylvia Stinson Perez welcome L Anne Hatton, Assistive Technology Training Specialist Lighthouse for the Blind of the Palm Beaches. Anne prepares her Sheet Pan Lemon Garlic and Herb Chicken with vegetables. She will also feature cutting techniques when we are Blind/Visually Impaired/Low Vision.

 

Gabe Rivera will prepare his Marvelous Homemade Meatballs to perfection! Accessible technology featured include: M...

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"Put down the mirror, and look ahead."

That's Debbie McDonald's philosophy for living a life well-lived.

Debbie not only is totally blind in her left eye, but she's come through two transplants, and battled cancer and diabetes. But, her outlook is stellar.  We would never know everything she has been through just by speaking with her.

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If you want to prepare her Albany, GA Peach Cobbler, please go to ou...

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Cooking Without Looking TV Show Hosts Allen Preston and Sylvia Stinson Perez welcome Ben Keeley and Shawn Keen to our Spring Holiday Edition! Ben will prepare a Savory Shrimp Bread. Shawn will whip up a Cornbread Pie! Come over and ENJOY!

If you want to enjoy the video version, please go to our Cooking Without Looking YouTube Channel.

 

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Today we welcome Dave Page from the South Coast of the U.K.

Dave has been blind since birth.  Dave went to a mainstream school, and not, as he says, a specialist school.

Dave points out that the folks who went to the specialist school are sometimes in for a shock when the real world isn't as accessible as it was in school.

We also talk about how both the sighted and blind communities should give each other a little more grace to cr...

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Often when we go blind, it's the people who are closest to us who tell us we can't.

That's what author Michele Farrell tells us about her blindness journey.

Michele has three pieces of advice for anyone who is losing their eyesight.

#ChangingTheWayWeSeeBlindness

Listen for the very special baked spaghetti recipe that Michele shares with us.

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"Don't spend time thinking you're alone," says Scott Thornhill, Executive Director of the American Council of the Blind.  "Get skills and build relationships."

That's Scott's advice for people who are begging to lose their sight.  He was a little boy when the doctor told him that he may be blind from RP by the time he was 40.  But, it happened earlier and now he has some light perception.

Scott often flies the friendly skies, and h...

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It is our Cooking Without Looking TV Show/AnyDay Cookware Edition! Host Allen Preston and Guest Host Erica Kress will host Lynn Coats as she prepares Marcella Hazan's Tomato Butter Pasta in AnyDay Cookware. AnyDay General Manager, Danielle Walsh, will create another AnyDay recipe, No-Boil "Baked" Ziti; and give us tips for cooking delicious food in the microwave using Anyday Cookware. If you enjoy cooking with your microwave, this ...

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If you always wanted to learn more about wine but were afraid to ask, join Cooking Without Looking TV Show Host Allen Preston and Matt Schumacher who tells us more than we've ever known about wines, and creates his Chicken Parm. #ChangingTheWayWeSeeBlindness For this recipe and others, please go to our website at www.cookingwithoutlookingtv.wordpress.com

 

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Happy White Cane Awareness Day!

Nelly Cardenas needed some Sprite for a special cake she was making.  But, instead of reaching for the Sprite, she grabbed a beer!

Needless to say, Nelly tossed that batter out!

 

Nelly has been totally blind since birth from Retinopathy of Prematurity.  She leads an independent life with the help of her white cane.

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She will tell us how to make her Sopita which is the on...

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This is our Cooking Without Looking TV Show/AnyDay Cookware Edition!

Host Allen Preston and Guest Host Erica Kress host Lynn Coats as she prepares Marcella Hazan's Tomato Butter Pasta in AnyDay Cookware.

AnyDay General Manager, Danielle Walsh, will create another AnyDay recipe, No-Boil "Baked" Ziti; and give us tips for cooking delicious food in the microwave using Anyday Cookware.

If you enjoy cooking with your microwave, this sho...

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The Perfect Steak and Paired with the Perfect Wine!  Matt Schumacher will help you with both!

Four years ago, Matt Schumacher was in an accident, and became blind instantaneously.

He had to learn to live all over again, this time with no sight.

Matt had been on his way to become a sommelier.  He was a wine specialist with hours and hours of study and research.  Because of his blindness, he was not able to finish his sommelier certi...

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When Juan Medina reached out to us, he wanted to talk about ways to break stereotypes of the blind.

Well, Juan, you came to the right place.  Our motto is: #ChangingTheWayWeSeeBlindness

Listen as Juan speaks about breaking the stereotypes including cooking, transportation, employment and volunteering.

As Juan's parents used to tell him, don't let your disability get in the way.  Just find a different way to do things.

You will want...

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Sayyida Victoria Hilliard was going about her day like any other when suddenly, her eyesight was gone.

Joseph Fleeks was 16 years old, and an up-and-comer star athlete when he was shot in the face, and blinded.

The condition which stole Sy's eyesight causes paralysis in others some times.  

Sy, Joseph and I had an intriguing conversation:  What would you rather be?  Blind or Paralyzed?  What is your answer?

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Ed Davis' Famous Chili and Fa' Shandra Howard's Delicious Baked Pork Chops and Smothered Potatoes...Those are the recipes on this edition of The Cooking Without Looking TV Show Blind United Edition. Hosts Allen Preston and Annette Watkins introduce us to Ed Davis, President of Blind United, and organization whose motto is what the group stands for: Building Bridges. Closing the Gap. Making Connections. Learn how to make the most te...

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Cooking Without Looking TV Show host Allen Preston welcomes Thierry Rentmeesters all the way from Belgium to make his mom's Belgian Beef Stew.

Chad Bartelt is preparing a super delicious, extra-special Mother's Day Brunch Scramble!

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If you've wanted to learn more about air fryer cooking, this is the show for you! Cooking Without Looking Host Allen Preston and Guest Host Sylvia Stinson-Perez welcome Flo Walsh and Dave Carragher as the give us the lowdown on using the air fryer if you are blind or visually impaired or even if you're sighted! Flo prepares her Jamaican Jerk Sweet Potato Fries. Dave prepares his Chicken Meatballs. #ChangingTheWayWeSeeBlindness  @co...

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