Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Duluth Goes Raw: Un-cooking with Local Ingredients

Teaching a raw food class on Thursday night! Sign up if you wanna check it out!


Duluth Goes Raw: Un-cooking with Local Ingredients
Instructor: Emily White
If you’re joining us for our Locovore Challenge (and even if you’re not), this class will give you some exciting local recipes to try…and they’re all raw! In this class we will make Living Chili, Crispy Salad with Raw Corn Chips, Basic Greens Juice, and Crepes with Maple Apple Filling. Vegan and Gluten-Free.

Thursday, September 3, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

Sunday, December 7, 2008

The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry

Just finished The Sharper Your Knife, The Less you Cry by Kathleen Flinn. A true story of food, romance, Paris and a lifelong dream: a degree from famed Le Cordon Bleu culinary school.

Here's the publisher's description from Kathleen's website:

In 2003, Kathleen Flinn, a thirty-six-year-old American living and working in London, returned from vacation to find that her corporate job had been eliminated. Ignoring her mother's advice that she get another job immediately or "never get hired anywhere ever again," Flinn instead cleared out her savings and moved to Paris to pursue a dream-a diploma from the famed Le Cordon Bleu.

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry is the touching and remarkably funny account of Flinn's transformation as she moves through the school's intense program and falls deeply in love along the way. Flinn interweaves more than two dozen recipes with a unique look inside Le Cordon Bleu amid battles with demanding chefs, competitive classmates, and her "wretchedly inadequate" French. Flinn offers a vibrant portrait of Paris, one in which the sights and sounds of the city's street markets and purveyors come alive in rich detail.

The ultimate wish fulfillment book, her story is a true testament to pursuing a dream. Fans of Julie & Julia, My LIfe in France, and Eat, Pray, Love will be amused, inspired, and richly rewarded by this seductive tale of romance, Paris, and French food. (OK, so that's what my publisher says...)