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The Kitchen Counter Cooking School
How A Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices Into Fearless Home Cooks
“A life-changing book—entertaining, inspiring, and deeply educational.”
—Erica Bauermeister, author of The School of Essential Ingredients
“This could be the most important book you’ll ever read”
—Morgan Spurlock, Filmmaker Super Size Me
”This book is certain to change the way you eat and cook”
—Virgina Willis, Bon Appeit, y’all
“Demonstrates how readers can change their lives…with the right recipe”
—Kirkus *starred* review
“A graduate of Paris’s elite Cordon Bleu School, Flinn, like Julia Child before her,
aims to demystify rarefied culinary know-how and bring basic cooking lessons to the simplest level.
—Publishers Weekly
What my publisher says: Inspired by a supermarket encounter with a woman loading up on processed foods, Flinn decided to use her culinary training to help nine novice cooks find their cooking confidence. The Kitchen Counter Cooking School takes these lessons and provides practical, healthy tips to boost your culinary self-confidence, and strategies to get the most from your grocery dollars, as well as simple recipes to get you cooking.
Buy: Special Offer!
Available everywhere books are sold October 3rd, 2011
Pre-order directly from me and I will sign and inscribe it to whomever you’d like the day it comes out and ship it for just $4. We will buy a copy from our neighborhood independent book stores. For a few dollars more, you can get it signed, get a free gift and support our independent bookstores. Email to secure your copy. Of course you can pre-order unsigned copies from Amazon.com, which is also happens to be in our neighborhood.
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry
A true story of food, romance, Paris and a lifelong dream: a degree from famed Le Cordon Bleu culinary school
That isn't me on the cover; it's a stock photo
“Flinn’s engaging account of her studies at famed French cooking school Le Cordon Bleu should strike a chord with anyone who has dreamed of leaving the rat race and following a passion for food. The main course, Flinn’s narrative of her trials and triumphs as she moves through the three levels of cuisine, is supplemented by plentiful helpings of drama, romance and near-tragedy in her personal life…foodies and memoir fans will be enchanted.”
- Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)
In 2003, Kathleen Flinn, a thirty-six-year-old American living and working in London, returned from vacation to find that her corporate job had been eliminated. Ignoring her mother’s advice that she get another job immediately or “never get hired anywhere ever again,” Flinn instead cleared out her savings and moved to Paris to pursue a dream-a diploma from the famed Le Cordon Bleu.
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cryis the touching and remarkably funny account of Flinn’s transformation as she moves through the school’s intense program and falls deeply in love along the way. Flinn interweaves more than two dozen recipes with a unique look inside Le Cordon Bleu amid battles with demanding chefs, competitive classmates, and her “wretchedly inadequate” French. Flinn offers a vibrant portrait of Paris, one in which the sights and sounds of the city’s street markets and purveyors come alive in rich detail. The ultimate wish fulfillment book, her story is a true testament to pursuing a dream. Fans of Julie & Julia, My LIfe in France, and Eat, Pray, Love will be amused, inspired, and richly rewarded by this seductive tale of romance, Paris, and French food.
Available in Amazon’s Kindle format
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Or, order a signed collector first-edition hardcover directly from me, inscribed to whomever you’d like (depending on my travel schedule, of course). $22 plus $4 shipping. Send me an email.
Praise for The Sharper Your Knife:
“…Destined to earn an honored place on the crowded bookshelves of many foodie readers.” – Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“I can never get enough of true stories about people who stop in the middle of their life’s journey to ask, ‘What do I really want?’ and then have the guts to actually go get it. Kathleen Flinn’s tale of chasing her ultimate dream makes for a really lovely book— engaging, intelligent and surprisingly suspenseful.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
“A fascinating look inside a famed elite institution” – Kirkus Reviews
“The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry is an engaging story about a fantasy fulfilled. It’s Under the Tuscan Sun goes to cooking school.” —Michael Ruhlman, author of The Soul of a Chef
“Although I can’t cook my way out of a sac de papier, I found this book a joy to read. It’s is a compelling story about learning to cook and learning to love at the same time, told with humility, humor and passion.” –Bill Radke, host of public radio’s Weekend America
Kathleen’s vivid story of her adventures at Le Cordon Bleu Paris had me smiling page after page. It’s about what you should always think about in the pressure behind a hot stove – the pure romance of cooking.” —Jerry Traunfeld, award-winning chef and author of The Herbfarm Cookbook and The Herbal Kitchen
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