The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices Into Fearless Home Cooks by Kathleen Flinn

    • Categories: Pasta, doughs & sauces; Main course; Side dish; Italian; Vegetarian; Vegan
    • Ingredients: zucchini; whole wheat penne pasta; black peppercorns
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Reviews about this book

  • Leite's Culinaria

    Whereas Flinn’s first book tells her tale of earning a diploma from the world’s most famous cooking school, her second commences two years after she’s left the hallowed halls–and kitchens–of Paris...

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  • Gluten-Free Girl

    Kat wants to take the skills she learned at Le Cordon Bleu and put them into the homes of ordinary people. What she teaches them, mostly, is confidence in the kitchen. And that’s all we need.

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  • Seattle Weekly

    Flinn's approach to teaching is simple and humble...She makes you want to enjoy life and cook and eat well. And with this book, I am confident you will.

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  • ISBN 10 0670023000
  • ISBN 13 9780670023004
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  • Published Sep 29 2011
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 304
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Viking Books
  • Imprint Viking Books

Publishers Text

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.

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