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2 out of 5 stars
By
Fleming
on
05-07-08
Autobiography of the Woman Next Door
First the good news: the narrator of The Sharper Your Knife... is excellent. An hour into the book I checked to see if she was the author. Unfortunately not. Without her I would have given up on the book half way through. So much for the good news.
Here is a book about a woman spending a lot of money and a little time to fufill her dream. Her dream seems to be not to cook or to learn to cook but to go to cooking school or maybe to write about going to cooking school. She attends the Cordon Bleu in Paris. She recounts ALL of her experiences with the school and the new culture and comes away with the profound insights of any high school foreign exchange student. The book is too long and in the left me asking why I should care about this story of someone I've never heard of who only has cliche emotional lessons learned. The writing is competent but often corny and unremarkable.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Amazon Customer
on
11-05-07
liked it
This was a fun listen. I did fast forward through the recipes, but really enjoyed the view of cooking school through a student. Not sure I want to each much french food, but enjoyed the book.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Anonymous User
on
04-13-18
cheesy
very cheesy at times but reasonable account of culinary school and the good and bad that comes with it
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