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The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks (Hardcover)

By Kathleen Flinn
$26.95
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Description


The author of The Sharper Your Knife tells the inspiring story of how she helped nine others find their inner cook.

After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, writer Kathleen Flinn returned with no idea what to do next, until one day at a supermarket she watched a woman loading her cart with ultraprocessed foods. Flinn's "chefternal" instinct kicked in: she persuaded the stranger to reload with fresh foods, offering her simple recipes for healthy, easy meals.

The Kitchen Counter Cooking School includes practical, healthy tips that boost readers' culinary self-confidence, and strategies to get the most from their grocery dollar, and simple recipes that get readers cooking.

About the Author


Kathleen Flinn has been a writer and journalist for nearly twenty years. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, USA Weekend, Men’s Fitness and many other publications. She is a proud member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Author’s Guild. She divides her time between Seattle and southwest Florida.

Praise for The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks…


"An engaging . . . book on the joys of home cooking and the teaching thereof."
--The Wall Street Journal


"The author's humble approach is inviting and shows why her students were enthusiastic."
--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)


"Flinn guides you patiently in the kitchen like the mom you always wish you'd had to learn to cook from. . . . The women gained confidence under Flinn's wonderfully encouraging tutelage, and fearlessly faced their kitchens and grocery stores with useful knowledge."
--Publishers Weekly


"Flinn winningly offers inspiration to anyone who cares about cooking but lacks basic tools and skills."
--Booklist


"An amiable companion to cookbook stalwarts such as Mark Bittman's How To Cook Everything, Pam Anderson's How To Cook Without a Book, and Michael Ruhlman's Ratio, this title provides encouragement where the others offer direction. A mash-up of inspiration and reference, it will appeal to readers who enjoy a story with their instruction."
--Library Journal


“[A] terrific, inspiring book.”
-�People (A People Pick)


"If you are going to read one book to change your diet and your life, The Kitchen Counter Cooking School is it."
--AP

Product Details ISBN-10: 0670023000
ISBN-13: 9780670023004
Published: Viking Adult, 09/29/2011
Pages: 304
Language: English
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