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 Add this to your list of food writing: The Sharper the Knife, the Less You Cry.  Better than Julia Child’s My Life in France and on par with Ruth Reichl’s books, Kathleen Finn brings us our next food must read.  Finn was a 36 year old Microsoft exec who was fired and decided almost on a whim to pursue her life long dream of cooking school at Le Cordon Bleu.  She writes with love and quiet insight.  Finn makes you feel like she knows you – like she understands the way you see the world.  Her adventures in Paris are delightfully delicious.  Tres bien! 

And we like Finn, because we wrote to her and she wrote us back!  Check out an except from her note: 

“Of your life, and of work you want to do, I’d only suggest going on a wild adventure if that’s where your heart tells you go. Don’t do it just to write a book about it, but because it’s the thing that you really want to do. If it’s writing, then go after it the way that you would any adventure. Throw yourself into it. Take classes, go to a writing camp, take your vacation to go somewhere and sit down and write….