Washoe County Library System

After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Kathleen Flinn had no idea what to do next, until one day at a supermarket she watched a woman loading her cart with ultraprocessed foods. Flinn persuaded the stranger to reload with fresh foods, offering her simple recipes for healthy, easy meals. She then helped nine others find their inner cook and boost their culinary self-confidence.

In 2003, Kathleen Flinn was a thirty-six-year-old American in London who felt trapped in corporate middle management–until her boss eliminated her job while she was on vacation. Ignoring her mother’s advice that she find another job immediately, Flinn moved to Paris to pursue a dream–a diploma from the venerable Le Cordon Bleu cooking school.
But instead of being ushered into “a glamorous world of soufflés and foie...