'Cooking in a Wheelchair' is a joyful, accessible YouTube show full of practical tips

Cheese, joy, and an inordinate amount of garlic are just a few things in abundance in the new YouTube cooking show Cooking in a Wheelchair. 

The idea to make an accessible cookery show came during lockdown when disability campaigner Katie Pennick was shielding at home for three months, and unable to leave the house for any reason. Prior to the pandemic, Pennick tended to eat out quite often. So when she began shielding, she got stuck into cooking every day out of sheer necessity in addition to keeping herself busy. 

Pennick, who uses a wheelchair, is frustrated with how people with disabilities are represented on television, films, and in the media. "Every time that there is a show that explores disability or has a disabled character in it, it usually falls into several different tropes," she told me. Pennick explained that one of the frequent tropes in media portrayals is a person "overcoming" their disability — terminology that she hates. Then there's "inspiration porn," which Pennick describes as "oh, this poor woman is in a wheelchair, but look, she can still make pasta."  Read more...

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