THE SHARPER YOUR KNIFE, THE LESS YOU CRY: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School is the touching and humorous story of Flinn’s transformation as she makes her way through the famed Le Cordon Bleu cooking school’s arduous curriculum and finds her soul mate along the way. It follows the good (falling in love in the most romantic city in the world while learning to cook like Julia Child) and the bad (with only a very basic understanding of the French language, learning to gut fish and cut the heads off rabbits under the strict tutelage of ill-tempered chefs). From the trials and tribulations of the kitchen to vibrant descriptions of Paris and its innumerable purveyors to the growth of her romance with the man she eventually marries, Kathleen’s account is a powerful testament to what can happen when you follow your dreams.

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