Kathleen Flinn
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Kathleen Flinn is the author of The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry, a memoir with recipes about her experiences at the famed Le Cordon Bleu in Paris.
At 36, Flinn returned from vacation to find that her corporate job had been eliminated. Ignoring her mothers 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 her life dream of studying French cuisine in Paris. Beyond the kitchens, she discovers what she really wants from life -- and falls deeply in love along the way.
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love calls it 'a really lovely book; engaging, intelligent and surprisingly suspenseful.'
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In a story in The New York Times on Sunday, writer Bruce Buchsel offered up 100 things that every restaurant staffer should know. As someone who spent a fair amount of my misspent youth working as a server, I immediately mused on some of the offerings.Many, I agreed with, such as "# 11. Do not hustle the lobsters. That is, do not say, 'We only have two lobsters left.' Even if there are only ... ...more
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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn avg rating 3.50 — 1,197 ratings — published 2007 7 editions |
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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn, Cassandra Campbell avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2007 |
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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008 |
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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007 |
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Seattle Sidewalk Offline Restaurant Guide: A Comprehensive Guide to Seattle Dining by Kathleen Flinn avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1997 |
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"The sharper your knife, the less you cry...for me, it also means cutting those things that get in the way of your passion and living your life the way it is meant to be lived."
— Kathleen Flinn (The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School)
— Kathleen Flinn (The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School)
"An emperor walks with his court through many fields of roses until they come to a barren spot. There he sees one rose. "It's the most beautiful rose I've ever seen!" the emperor cries. Those walking with him point out that he'd just been through a field of similar roses. "Yes, but THIS one I can see.""
— Kathleen Flinn (The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School)
— Kathleen Flinn (The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School)
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