The kitchen counter cooking school : how a few simple lessons transformed nine culinary novices into fearless home cooks

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  • Author: Flinn, Kathleen
    Contributor:

    Gavin, Marguerite

    Summary:

    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.

    Contents:
    • Changing courses. We'll always have Paris ; What would Julia do? ; The secret language of kitchens ; It's not about the knife ; A matter of taste ; Fowl play ; Cruise control
    • A bit about meats, bread, pasta, salads, and vinaigrettes. The bread also rises ; Tossed salad and scrambled eggs ; Udder confusion ; The red velvet dinners
    • Seafood, soup, and the importance of leftovers. The pleasures of the fish ; What's in the box? ; Waste not, want not ; The power of soup ; Kitchens revisited
    • Extra recipes.
    Genre: Anecdotes, Biographies and autobiographies, Food and drink
    Original Publisher: [Old Saybrook, Conn.] , Tantor Media
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781452624679

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    1452624674

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    9781452674674

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    1452674671

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DC Contributor

Gavin, Marguerite

Abstract

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.

Genre
Anecdotes
Biographies and autobiographies
Food and drink
Publisher (Source)

[Old Saybrook, Conn.]

Tantor Media

Not specified

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