The Kitchen Counter Cooking School
How A Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks

I grew up in the sixties when there was a strong movement toward moving back to natural foods. I had a mom who was a stay-at-home mother and prepared a big dinner ever night for us. When I had a family of my own, I prepared dinner every night, as my mother had modeled for me. Gradually, however, aft......more

I already like to cook, and most of the time I think I do a pretty good job whipping up things in the kitchen. So when I started to read The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks by Kathleen Flinn, I thought I would enjoy......more

This is a book that fits in multiple categories. It's clearly nonfiction and a memoir of sorts as the author the author chronicles her culinary journey. While not a cookbook in the classic sense, the book is filled with kitchen sense and tips with recipes at the end of each chapter. This is a book......more

The keep-in-the-fridge-bread dough recipe alone is worth the price of the book. Since reading this, I've taken apart a whole chicken for the first time, saved beef bones for future broth-making, devised a fabulous last-minute recipe involving chicken legs braised in coconut milk, and looked at the c......more