“chewing the meat he’d grilled,” interrogates Leland’s wife at a backyard barbecue about being married to a blind man. The second half of his wife’s hyphenated surname is ...

John Diakakis, the manager of the family business, has retinitis pigmentosa and has been legally blind since birth ... series—he was drawn to the man serving food and cracking jokes.

Blindekuh, or the Blind Cow (the German name for the game of blind man’s bluff), was wildly popular, and inspired dozens of similar ventures that opened in cities across Europe and around the world.