AdvertisementChef Wants Diners To Remember Her Cooking, Not Her BlindnessAugust 24, 2015Cheryl CorleyfacebookEmailLaura Martinez may be the only blind chef in the country running her own restaurant. La Diosa opened in January. Martinez was hired directly out of culinary school by acclaimed Chicago chef Charlie Trotter and worked for him until his restaurant closed in 2012. (NPR)