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This new cookbook, Measuring Spoons, hasn’t even been published yet, but just thinking about it existing is making me excited to go in the scariest room in my house: the kitchen. Ah, the kitchen, the place where I break stuff, burn stuff and myself, make stuff that tastes of only “stuff,” and start stuff that cannot be finished because I hadn’t remembered to plan first for which stuff would be needed to make stuff that I could eventually stuff myself with.

I filled out a short and delightful survey for the authors who are putting together Measuring Spoons. From the survey intro, it says, “Your answers will help better gauge specific needs that disabled people experience in the kitchen/around cooking.” Your answers are anonymous, and I really think everyone’s feedback will help them design a cookbook that addresses the challenges many disabled people face in the scary room. I’m so intimidated by recipes! I told the cookbook authors exactly what problems I have with recipes and cooking in general. If they use anything I say, that means they could produce a cookbook I can actually use correctly!

Please fill out the survey, especially if you have a disability that has an impact on how, what, and when you cook. You can even contact the authors and offer to be a recipe tester as they develop and refine the recipes and instructions for the book. The email address is in the survey. I volunteered to do that because it’s a little outside motivation that will encourage me to go to the scary room and try to stop being scared. Maybe it could even help me quit calling it the scary room. Non-disabled people are welcome to fill it out too.

Watch my ridiculous, not-even-fictional short film with captions, Cooking With Brain Injury, with audio description or without audio description. And then let that comedic travesty motivate you to support the cookbook authors to create the best Measuring Spoons ever.