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Making your culinary dream a reality

April 20, 2009 by Suzie the Foodie 5 Comments

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Thanks to Kathleen Flinn, I recently went on a trip to Paris and went to the most famous culinary arts school in the world. Finding herself in London, England, fired from her corporate job, she signs up to fulfill her dream of enrolling in Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts Program. She documents her trials and tribulations in her book The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School.

If you are a foodie, the book is absolutely rivetting. And at times quite horrific. Kathleen’s culinary and personal journey in Paris is fascinating, painful and downright inspiring. She never gives up and evolves into being a chef before our very eyes. We learn about the most famous cooking school in the world from a student’s personal perspective and see how they turn her into an artist with food.

For those of you who have always wondered what it would be like to take that huge leap of faith and go for the biggest dream you can imagine, The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cryis for you. Kathleen Flinn does just that with humour and flare and also shares her recipes along the way.

Her story made me realize on quite a few levels that I do not want to go to culinary school. I may be able to get beyond the chopping off duck feet and scraping out fish eyeballs, but what I can not get passed is the use of all that cream and butter! I’m more of a healthy west-coast eating kind of person and thanks to Kathleen’s story I can let go of the question, do I want to be a chef? Nope, I want to be a foodie and that’s OK.

Meat-stuffed meat is not my cup of tea so now I can close that chapter and focus on the foods I want to create. There are many different versions of a culinary dream. I admire and respect Kathleen for fulfilling hers. Now I have to find and fulfill my own.

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  1. Tori says

    April 20, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    I had to decide a while ago that I do not want to be a chef. I’m such a picky eater that it wouldn’t work anyway. xD I’d much rather manage the restaurant, I’ll leave the heavy-duty cooking to those who are good at it.

    The book sounds interesting!

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  2. Jamie Ridler says

    April 20, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    What an awesome title. Sounds like an interesting journey.

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  3. Kathleen says

    April 20, 2009 at 8:17 pm

    Thanks so much for the kind words about my book. And it’s funny, after learning so much about meat-stuff-ed-meat, I’m using those skills to focus on healthy, west coast style food, too. – Kathleen

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  4. Shell says

    April 21, 2009 at 1:50 am

    I have to check out this book. It’s a great feeling to know where you want your dream to go. Accepting parts of our dreams don’t call to us.

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  5. holly says

    April 21, 2009 at 11:04 pm

    Sounds like a wonderful book, but I know I could never be a chef, I abhor meat, shudder. Thanks for sharing with us. Who doesn’t like to hear about people going ahead and living their dream?

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