12-9-08 The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn - Non-Fiction

5 - This is a great book for a chef or a wannabe chef. Flinn takes us on her journey through her life and her time at Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris. Fulfilling a lifelong dream, she takes a chance and enrolls when she loses her job in London. The trials and tribulations of attending the toughest and most famous cooking school are amusing, touching, and endearing all at once. Chefs will pick up cooking and food preparation tips as well as full recipes at the end of each chapter. Flinn shares not only what she learned at school about cooking, but also what she learned of life. Along the way, she falls in love, gets married, and begins to look at the world in a different light because of her associations with the students, teachers, and culture of food at Le Cordon Bleu.