The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School is a best-selling memoir with recipes by American writer Kathleen Flinn. It was first published by the Viking Press on October 4, 2007, ISBN 0-670-01822-8.[1]
In this non-fiction narrative, the author loses her corporate job, cashes in her savings and heads to Paris to study at the Le Cordon Bleu cooking school.[2] It is notable in being the first book-length account of the experience of attending the famous school.[3]
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry was a Finalist for the Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction in 2008.