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The Kitchen Counter Cooking School •• How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks •• Kathleen Flinn VIKING 9780670023004_Kitchen_FM_pi-xvi.indd vii 12/07/11 4:16 PM 9780670023004_Kitchen_FM_pi-xvi.indd ii 12/07/11 4:16 PM v 9780670023004_Kitchen_FM_pi-xvi.indd i 12/07/11 4:16 PM • The Kitchen Counter Cooking School • 9780670023004_Kitchen_FM_pi-xvi.indd iii 12/07/11 4:16 PM ALSO BY KATHLEEN FLINN The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School 9780670023004_Kitchen_FM_pi-xvi.indd v 12/07/11 4:16 PM The Kitchen Counter Cooking School •• How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks •• Kathleen Flinn VIKING 9780670023004_Kitchen_FM_pi-xvi.indd vii 12/07/11 4:16 PM VIKING Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. • Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) • Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England • Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) • Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) • Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India • Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, Auckland 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) • Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published in 2011 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Copyright © Kathleen Flinn, 2011 All rights reserved Names and identifying characteristics have been changed to protect the privacy of certain individuals. Photograph credits Page 5: Maggie Savarino; 125: Kathleen Flinn; 183: Jeff Maness LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA Flinn, Kathleen. The kitchen counter cooking school : how a few simple lessons transformed nine culinary novices into fearless home cooks / Kathleen Flinn. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9978-1-101-54163-0 1. Cooking—Study and teaching—Anecdotes. 2. Flinn, Kathleen—Anecdotes. 3. Cook books. I. Title. TX661.F57 2011 641.507—dc23 2011016222 Designed by Carla Bolte Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copy rightable materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. 9780670023004_Kitchen_FM_pi-xvi.indd viii 12/07/11 4:16 PM For my mother, Irene For encouraging me to find joy in everything, not just cooking •• 9780670023004_Kitchen_FM_pi-xvi.indd ix 12/07/11 4:16 PM Contents •• •• Author’s Note xiii PROLOGUE The Woman with the Chicken 1 PART I CHANGING COURSES CHAPTER 1 We’ll Always Have Paris 7 CHAPTER 2 What Would Julia Do? 17 CHAPTER 3 The Secret Language of Kitchens 30 CHAPTER 4 It’s Not About the Knife 62 CHAPTER 5 A Matter of Taste 75 CHAPTER 6 Fowl Play 91 CLASS BREAK Cruise Control 113 PART II A BIT ABOUT MEATS, BREAD, PASTA, SALADS, AND VINAIGRETTES CHAPTER 7 The Bread Also Rises 127 CHAPTER 8 Tossed Salad & Scrambled Eggs 144 9780670023004_Kitchen_FM_pi-xvi.indd xi 12/07/11 4:16 PM CHAPTER 9 Udder Confusion 152 CLASS BREAK The Red Velvet Dinners 172 PART III SEAFOOD, SOUP, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF LEFTOVERS CHAPTER 10 The Pleasures of the Fish 185 CHAPTER 11 What’s in the Box? 196 CHAPTER 12 Waste Not, Want Not 210 CHAPTER 13 The Power of Soup 227 CHAPTER 14 Kitchens, Revisited 239 Extra Recipes 267 Acknowledgments 275 Selected Bibliography 277 Recommended Reading 281 Index of Recipes 285 9780670023004_Kitchen_FM_pi-xvi.indd xii 12/07/11 4:16 PM
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