The sharper your knife, the less you cry

love, laughter, and tears in Paris at the world's most famous cooking school

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The sharper your knife, the less you cry

love, laughter, and tears in Paris at the world's most famous cooking school

  • 2.5 (2 ratings) ·
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Recounts the author's decision to change careers and attend the famed Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris, an education during which she survived the program's intense teaching methods, competitive fellow students, and the dynamics of falling in love, in an account complemented by two dozen recipes.

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Penguin
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290

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Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
2012, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
2011, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
Cover of: Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry
Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
2008, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
October 4, 2007, Viking Adult
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Table of Contents

Prologue: this is not for pretend
Life is not a dress rehearsal
Lost in translation
Culinary boot camp
Taking stock
Memoirs of a quiche
La vie en rose
No bones about it
Splitting hares
The souffle also rises
As the vegetables turn
Final exam: basic
C'est la vie, c'est la guerre
A week in Provence
Rites of passaage
The silence of the lamb
I am a pizza for Kathleen
A sauce thicker than blood
La catastrophe Americaine
Bon travail
final exam: intermediate
Back in bleu
Great expectations
Gods, monsters, and slaves
La danse
Bye-bye, lobster
I didn't always hate my job
An American hospital in Paris
Final exam: superior
Epilogue: Thanksgiving in Paris.

Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Viking, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-282) and index of recipes (p. [283]-285).

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Library of Congress
TX669.F8F585 2008

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Pagination
viii, 290 p. ;
Number of pages
290

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OL23098927M
Internet Archive
sharperyourknife00flin_0
ISBN 10
0143114131
ISBN 13
9780143114130
LCCN
2006102084
Library Thing
3153862
Amazon ID (ASIN)
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2629425

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Recounts the author's decision to change careers and attend the famed Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris, an education during which she survived the program's intense teaching methods, competitive fellow students, and the dynamics of falling in love, in an account complemented by two dozen recipes.

Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Viking, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-282) and index of recipes (p. [283]-285).

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