Name: The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry
Rating: 3.5 (5 reviews)

Kathleen Flinn

Recounts the author's decision to change careers and attend the famed Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris, describing how she survived the program's intense teaching methods and competitive fellow students, in an account complemented by two dozen recipes.

Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry

Jeannette Ordas

I felt a familiar trajectory when reading this book and I guess it's because there are so many books that tread similar terrain. It's a good read, but not a great one but it certainly made me want to visit Paris one day soon.

Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School

Kourtney

While I am not a chef, nor do I have any desire to become one, I do enjoy the show "Hell's Kitchen." Somewhere I read that if you like to watch that show read this book. They could not have been more wrong. While there were some funny tales throughout the book, it relied too much on the author's notes that she took during school to make a dish. If I wanted to know how to cut a rabbit's head off in such detail, I would attend cooking school myself. I was expecting a story and ended up instead with a glorified cookbook.

This book just wasn't my cup of tea.

Marcus Rediker

Draws on three decades of research to chart the history of slave ships, their crews, and their enslaved passengers, documenting such stories as those of a young kidnapped African whose slavery is witnessed firsthand by a horrified priest from a neighboring tribe responsible for the slave's capture. 30,000 first printing.

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School

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