Could you cook dinner with one hand tied behind your back? Thirteen years after surviving a near-fatal stroke, Jacqui Hynd invites you to share her comeback, emphasising her love of travel, photography and especially cooking. Travels with a One-Handed Cook describes her stroke and the challenges of the first few years, whereby she could not talk, read, write, walk, or remember (short term memory gone), and was in a wheelchair for 3 years. The book also charts her move to the Spanish countryside with her husband to renovate a country property, and enjoy the challenge of living in a different land. This cookbook is a reason for living, as in to experience travel again, to cook new things! Being one-handed now, she's made cooking easy and versatile, a delight for home cooks everywhere. Her travels before and after the stroke, has its influences in the recipes: dishes from South East Asia, and the Mediterranean countries including Morocco, all prepared by a one-handed cook, from her unique perspective.
Hot on the heels of her first book, Travels with a One-Handed Cook, Jacqui Hynd has created a tasty sequel, focusing on economical dishes given the current global state: the quote is "good ingredients alone do not make fabulous food: it's how you prepare them."In this book, 'Cook,Eat, Be Happy!', luxury is the end product made from humble ingredients: its not only easy but clever as well: an orange almond cake that doesn't need flour or butter.They are done by a cook who can only rely on one hand (courtesy of a stroke), they are definitely a cinch for people who can use two hands.I've learnt to appreciate the great things in life that seem so taken for granted before I had my stroke.The book also includes interesting and humorous travel anecdotes regarding eating out around the world, and accompanying cartoons...
Hot on the heels of her first book, Travels with a One-Handed Cook, Jacqui Hynd has created a tasty sequel, focusing on economical dishes given the current global state: the quote is "good ingredients alone do not make fabulous food: it's how you prepare them."In this book, 'Cook,Eat, Be Happy!', luxury is the end product made from humble ingredients: its not only easy but clever as well: an orange almond cake that doesn't need flour or butter.They are done by a cook who can only rely on one hand (courtesy of a stroke), they are definitely a cinch for people who can use two hands.I've learnt to appreciate the great things in life that seem so taken for granted before I had my stroke.The book also includes interesting and humorous travel anecdotes regarding eating out around the world, and accompanying cartoons...
Could you cook dinner with one hand tied behind your back? Thirteen years after surviving a near-fatal stroke, Jacqui Hynd invites you to share her comeback, emphasising her love of travel, photography and especially cooking. Travels with a One-Handed Cook describes her stroke and the challenges of the first few years, whereby she could not talk, read, write, walk, or remember (short term memory gone), and was in a wheelchair for 3 years. The book also charts her move to the Spanish countryside with her husband to renovate a country property, and enjoy the challenge of living in a different land. This cookbook is a reason for living, as in to experience travel again, to cook new things! Being one-handed now, she's made cooking easy and versatile, a delight for home cooks everywhere. Her travels before and after the stroke, has its influences in the recipes: dishes from South East Asia, and the Mediterranean countries including Morocco, all prepared by a one-handed cook, from her unique perspective.
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