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

Gosh, it's been a long time since I've read a book I didn't like. Unfortunately, I read this upon returning from France, and so perhaps I had too high expectations for it, but Flinn's narrative is just sort of lame. I got about halfway through the book before deciding that life was too short to waste it on a mediocre read, and I moved on. The recipes and the descriptions of the inner workings of Le Cordon Bleu are really interesting, but Flinn herself is a little annoying. Sometimes you feel she's digging for some spectacular insight on being a foreigner in France or being novice chef in a world famous cooking school, but then she just sort of drops the ball and the chapter ends. If you're interested in Le Cordon Bleu, this might be interesting, but otherwise there are better food/travel memoirs out there (Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert or Almost French by Sarah Turnbull).