Kathleen Flinn

The author of The Sharper Your Knife tells the inspiring story of how she helped nine others find their inner cook. After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, writer Kathleen Flinn returned with no idea what to do next, until one day at a supermarket she watched a woman loading her cart with ultraprocessed ... (more)foods. Flinn's "chefternal" instinct kicked in: she persuaded the stranger to reload with fresh foods, offering her simple recipes for healthy, easy meals. The Kitchen Counter Cooking School includes practical, healthy tips that boost readers' culinary self-confidence, and strategies to get the most from their grocery dollar, and simple recipes that get readers cooking. Kathleen Flinn has been a writer and journalist for twenty years. Her work has appeared in more than three dozen publications worldwide, including the Chicago Sun-Times, USA Weekend, Men's Fitness, Smithsonian, and the Chicago Tribune, among others. Her first book, The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry was a finalist in the Washington State book awards. She lives in Seattle.

The Sharper Your Knife is 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 recipes with a unique look inside Le Cordon Bleu amid battles with demanding chefs, competitive classmates, ... (more)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.

One of our very favorite books of this past year—Seattle (part of the year) writer and journalist Kathleen Flinn's The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School—has its paperback edition (Penguin) celebrated with this evening of talk, ... (more)signing, and certain delectables.

The Sharper the Knife The Less You Cry
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Kathleen Flinn discusses and signs her book Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Kathleen Flinn discusses and signs her book Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

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