Adapting in the Kitchen

How do you keep doing something that you love after your body changes ... and you can’t do it the way you used to? Yewande Komolafe was a cook for two decades before a medical crisis and multiple amputations forced her to change the way that she worked in the kitchen. She tells guest host (and Embodied producer) Kaia Findlay about her process of coming back to cooking and reconnecting to her identity as a chef. Plus, Christine Ha, “the Blind Cook,” talks about how gradual vision loss affected her abilities in the kitchen and how relearning everything from boiling water to knife skills helped her establish new methods for navigating the future. Meet the guests: - Yewande Komolafe is a recipe developer and cooking columnist at the New York Times - Christine Ha is a MasterChef winner, the owner of two restaurants and an author Read the transcript Follow Embodied on Instagram Leave a message for Embodied