Chef Christine Ha, who has a vision impairment, has cooked her way around the world and even won over celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. Now she's serving up something new: her first restaurant, called 'The Blind Goat.'
"I feel like cooking is a way of self-expression and of being able to share myself and my story with other people," Ha says."Cooking for someone else is also a way to show love." Learning to cook -- and adaptLove is what drew Ha to cooking in her early 20s. She didn't grow up wanting to become a chef. But missing her late mother's Vietnamese home cooking in college prompted her to"reverse engineer" her mom's dishes from memory.
"This was happening simultaneously," Ha recalls."I would always have to find new ways to adapt and cook the same recipes again, but using different tools or different senses, or just upping my game."Read MoreHa met her husband, John Suh, while she was losing her vision."I was honest with him from the beginning and he still stuck around, and he's the kind of person that pushes me to still be independent," she says.
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