Current Events > Chef bakes braille birthday cake for blind lady.

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There may be a thousand ways to say, Happy Birthday! but the sweetest of all may very well be a special chocolate message that was recently served up by an amazingly thoughtful restaurant staff.

Creating natal felicitations in warm liquid cocoa was nothing new at Londons Luciano by Gino DAcampo restaurant, but for birthday girl Natalie Te Paa, who is totally blind, the best wishes were spelled out in Braille.

What gave the message an even greater meaning was that there was no advance planning involved. When the restaurant crew learned the dinner Te Paa was sharing with friend Claire Sara was a birthday celebration, they took it upon themselves to find and recreate the Braille translation that summed up their best wishes in well-chilled chocolate.

Te Paa could barely believe her fingertips as she traced over the raised confectionary dots.

My mind was blank for a second and then I was like, Is this in Braille? Ta Paa told TODAY. Ive never had anything happen like that before. It was wild. They just really did go above and beyond.

While restaurant manager Giovanni Galluccio maintains the impromptu gesture was simply part of the customer service they strive to extend to all their patrons

As Te Paa told TODAY, The fact that people have responded so much and so well to it just shows how much the world needs kindness right now, how much the world needs a message of hope, needs to see people doing things and going above and beyond for each other.

So take heart despite how broken the world is right now, the viral video caption reads, true kindness still exists.

To paraphrase M&Ms iconic taglinethats one message sure to melt in your hearts, not in your hands.

Full Article: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/restaurant-braille-chocolate-cake-natalie-te-paa/


What a kind and smart chef.

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That's a nice gesture but who tf wants to eat that cake after she put her hands all over it

Edit: nvm it looks like it's just on the plate

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That's a nice gesture but who tf wants to eat that cake after she put her hands all over it

Every cake you've eaten has had chefs and bakers hands all over it first

You've eaten thousands of people's skin particles

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There is also a French Wine maker that does this.

"Since 1996, all Maison M. CHAPOUTIER labels feature the wine informations written in braille. This is a tribute to Maurice Monier de la Sizeranne, the inventor of the first abridged version of braille and founder of the Valentin Hay Association, who helped bring the blind and visually challenged out of isolation. There is even a wine that carries his name, from a plot that belonged to his family. This is a way of giving something back to somebody who made a real contribution."

https://imgur.com/aMUVP7D
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