Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good, the third memoir by Kathleen Flinn, is a sweet story of family, of the immigrant experience, and of the ability of our senses to trigger a memory. The first half of the book is anecdotal family history while the second half the more personal story of her own life. Th...
Skip it - read Julia Child's My Life In France. This was lacking something....salt?
I really enjoyed this book. It taught me a lot about cooking, even though I already know a lot about cooking from my readings over the last few years. Its exactly the kind of book I was looking for a few years ago, and I wish I'd had it then. One small thing that I want to mention, is in the chapter...
I grew up in the sixties when there was a strong movement toward moving back to natural foods. I had a mom who was a stay-at-home mother and prepared a big dinner ever night for us. When I had a family of my own, I prepared dinner every night, as my mother had modeled for me. Gradually, however, aft...
Quick and interesting read. Flinn decides to "rescue" some volunteers from their fears and ignorance about cooking for themselves. It's an interesting sociological study in a way -- all the different reasons (family, culture, economics, time) that these women have never mastered the basics of cookin...
I loved reading about Kathleen Flinn‘s teaching adventures in The Kitchen Counter Cooking School. I can’t recommend it highly enough for those who want, very simply, to master their kitchen domain. Flinn had the idea to start the “school” after she sneakily followed a mother and daughter around th...
A good read for anyone considering going to Le Cordon Bleu. Flinn's narration can be a bit tiresome and too 'journalistic' but you find yourself cheering for her and her wonderful boyfriend Mike.
Fun, easygoing foodie lit, reaffirming the fact that French cuisine puzzles me. And that I want to get my own entry into foodie chick lit... though I don't think I've done or cooked anything to write about. Yet.
A fun, very revealing look at a midlife crisis and making a career switch. If you liked Julie and Julia, you'll probably like this one too. For the longer review, please go here:http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_The_Sharper_Your_Knife_the_Less_You_Cry_Kathleen_Flinn/content_449742540420
Flinn loses her high-pressure job and finds herself unexpectedly able for the first time in her life to pursue her dreams; Flinn decides to spurn her former life and head off to Le Cordon Bleu, the world’s most renowned cooking school. It doesn’t take long for reality to hit her. All her cooking eff...
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