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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry
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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry (2007) (edit title/settings)

Love, Learning, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School

by Kathleen Flinn (Author) (edit contributors)

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In 2003, Kathleen Flinn was a thirty-six-year-old American in London who felt trapped in corporate middle management - until her boss eliminated her job while she was on vacation. Ignoring her mother's advice that she find another job immediately or "never get hired anywhere ever ... read more

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  • Kathleen Flinn: One of those great memoirs about daring to persue a dream that doesn't make any sense. The author is an engaging story-teller who, even when dealing with despair, manages to be amusingly self-deprecating and sweet.
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As a little girl, while other children played house, I played restaurant.

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Part I: Basic Cuisine
1) Life Is Not a Dress Rehearsal
2) Lost in Translation
3) Culinary Boot Camp
4) Taking Stock
5) Memoirs of a Quiche
6) La Vie en Rose
7) No Bones About It
8) Splitting Hairs
9) The Souffle Also Rises
10) As the Vegetables Turn
11) Final Exam - Basic

Part II: Intermediate Cuisine
Class Break: Spain
12) C'est la Vie, C'est la Guerre
13) A Week in Provence
14) Rites of Passage
15) The Silence of the Lamn
16) "I Am a Pizza for Kathleen"
17) A Sauce Thicker Than Blood
18) La Catastrophe Americane
19) Bon Travail
20) Final Exam - Intermediate

Part III: Superior Cuisine
Class Break: Normandy, Then America
21) Back in Bleu
22) Great Expectations
23) Gods, Monsters and Slaves
24) La Danse
25) Bye-Bye, Lobster
26) I Didn't Always Hate My Job
27) An American Hospital in Paris
28) Final Exam - Superior

Epilogue: Thanksgiving in Paris
Extra Recipes
Acknowledgements
Selected Bibliography
Index of Recipes

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  1. Kathleen Flinn (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 0670018228
Page Count: 304

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