About Chef Riq
I’m Chef Riq, founder and voice of Unseen Cuisine — a blind holistic chef and nutritionist on a mission to make the kitchen a place of confidence, creativity, and connection for everyone.
My story begins in the heat of professional kitchens, where sizzling pans, quick hands, and endless passion taught me that cooking is more than what meets the eye. It’s rhythm, it’s patience, it’s music, and it’s love. For years, I crafted dishes that healed and inspired, working in restaurants and culinary schools, helping others find their flavor and their focus.
Then, life changed. A chemical accident cost me my sight but not my vision. I had a choice: stop cooking, or find a new way forward. And so, Unseen Cuisine was born not just as a brand, but as a movement.
Today, I teach through sound, touch, and instinct. I demonstrate that cooking is a full-body experience, one that you can hear when butter is ready, feel when a cut is clean, and smell when a sauce has come alive. I create recipes that bridge fine dining with accessibility, guiding people through step-by-step audio cook-alongs that turn every home kitchen into a stage for confidence.
My goal is simple: to prove that food is for everyone. Whether you cook by sight or by soul, there’s always a place for you at my table. Through my podcast, videos, and live demonstrations, I’m building a community that celebrates ability, resilience, and the power of flavor.
Because when food heals and flavor inspires — we’re all cooking without limits.
Our Core Ingredients
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Accessibility: Designing recipes and techniques that everyone can follow.
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Education: Teaching not just how to cook, but why flavor and nutrition matter.
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Community: Building a table big enough for every cook to belong.
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Inspiration: Showing that creativity thrives in every circumstance.
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Mission Statement
My mission is to make cooking accessible, joyful, and empowering for people who are blind or low-vision, people with disabilities, and anyone who wants to cook with confidence. Through Unseen Cuisine, I teach people how to cook using sound, touch, aroma, and intuition, not just sight. I create recipes, cook-alongs, and techniques that remove fear from the kitchen and prove that great food has no limits.
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Credentials & Expertise
Chef Riq — Personal Chef • Holistic Health & Nutrition Practitioner • Drugless Wellness Advocate • Fitness & Nutrition Coach • Certified Health Coach
Combining over 25 years of culinary experience with holistic wellness and nutrition, Chef Riq bridges restaurant-quality flavor with accessible, health-driven cooking — teaching others how to heal, move, and live through food.
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"I don’t just cook food — I create balance. Every dish, every flavor, and every moment in the kitchen should nourish both the body and the soul."
Meet the Movement — Unseen Cuisine
Unseen Cuisine is more than a podcast or recipe brand; it’s a movement built on inclusion, creativity, and flavor that heals.
We believe the kitchen is a universal space where everyone, regardless of whether they are blind, have low vision, are disabled, or are sighted, deserves to cook with confidence and pride.
Every recipe, cook-along, and conversation is crafted to awaken the senses beyond sight: The hiss of a hot pan, the scent of garlic hitting oil, the texture of perfectly kneaded dough, the rhythm of cooking that connects us all.
Through storytelling, accessible instruction, and flavor-driven education, we’re changing how the world experiences food, one plate, one voice, and one listener at a time.