The Kitchen Counter Cooking School

By Kathleen Flinn

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

The Kitchen Counter Cooking School is essentially "What Not to Wear" meets Michael Pollan.   Inspired by a supermarket encounter with a woman loading up on processed foods, Le Cordon Blue graduate Kathleen Flinn decided to use her recent culinary training to help a group of nine culinary novitiates find their inner cook.  These students invited Kathleen into their kitchens where she took inventory of each person's refrigerator, cabinets and eating habits.  After kitchen "makeovers" and a series of basic lessons where they learned to wield knives, trust their taste and improve their food choices, the women found a common missing ingredient--confidence.  In this new book, Flinn follows these women's journeys and includes practical, healthy tips to boost readers' culinary confidence, strategies to get the most from their grocery dollar and simple recipes to get readers cooking.

From the Author

"I feel there is a disconnect in this country when it comes to food and cooking. On one hand, there's a culture of hero worship around celebrity chefs that fuels cooking-as-a-spectator-sport on television. At the same time, marketers worked for decades to convince people that cooking themselves isn't worth their time, and that even simple dishes fall outside their grasp. All this explains why one woman in the book told me, 'I'm ashamed to admit it, but I've eaten Tuna Helper while watching Gordon Ramsey.' It's a funny line about a serious problem. The rise of convenience food and decline of home cooking are inextricably correlated to the surge of obesity and diabetes. If people think they can't cook, they put themselves at the mercy of companies whose interests are primarily financial to feed them instead. I believe in the power of home cooking and one of my life's mission is to help people find their way off the couch and into the kitchen.

About the Author

Kathleen Flinn is the author of the bestselling memoir The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry, which recounted her experiences earning a diplome de cuisine at the venerable Le Cordonn Bleu in Paris. A writer for more than 20 years, her work has appeared in over three dozen publications around the world, Chicago Sun-Times, USA Weekend, Smithsonian, and the Chicago Tribune, among others. Her first book was a finalist in the Washington State book awards and selected for the Beard on Books program at the James Beard House in New York. She divides her time between Seattle and Anna Maria Island, Florida.

Product Details

Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Viking Adult (September 29, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0670023000
ISBN-13: 978-0670023004
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.2 inches

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