Updated 5th September 2008

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The paperback version of The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry hit stores today. All this week I'll be guest blogging on the official Penguin blog. Also Mike and I travel to Spokane to kickoff the tour and then I'll be appearing around the country with various stops through October. Take a look at the developing itinerary and come out so I can meet you. The paperback includes a menu guide for book clubs; I've included it online here, too. Also, check out the reading guide on the ever-so-official Viking/Penguin site.

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Amazon.com is now offering the book on its Kindle device. Visit the amazon.com link to purchase and have the book auto-delivered to your Kindle wirelessly in under a minute.

Oh, and you can take a look at the excerpt from AAA Going Places and the prologue excerpted here on the site.

• My favorite moment in the hardcover book tour was meeting my radio crush Neal Conan in the NPR Washington studios on Talk of the Nation. You can listen to the interview, read an excerpt and even check out a couple of recipes on the NPR site.
• Selected as the first book in 2008 for Beard on Booksat the James Beard House in New York.
• Saras Moulton included in her Top 10 Cookbooks of the Year on Good Morning America (12/20)
• Selected as one of the Top 20 food books of 2007 by Leite's Culinaria.
• Smithsonian magazine ran an excerpt in the January 2008 issue.
• Elle magazine picked it as the #1 Reader's Choice in its December.
• I had a lovely chat with WNYC-AM/FM's Leonard Lopate in New York.
• I've done a bunch of local TV. Here's my favorite interview so far. (I don't have a link to the first TV appearance I did, unfortunate since I cut myself demonstrating how to dice an onion...)
• Jeff Houck of the Tampa Tribune wrote a huge spread and interviewed me for a podcast - while I was in my bathtub.
• The Seattle Times wrote this in the Oct 3, 2007 Food & Wine section
• The Fall Reading Guide in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer featured this lovely review.
• The book has earned the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, picked for October as a book "To Spark Your Dream."
• The crew at Page Six over at the New York Post, wrote it was all about the "culinary hell" of the kitchen at Le Cordon Bleu.
• Last, but not least, Women & Wine and Sofitel Hotels sponsored parties in six cities for about 500 women, each of whom received a copy of my book from the hotel.

Do you need more than this? I'm exhausted just reading it.

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About me
I'm a journalist and food writer based in Seattle. I bare my soul on my bio page. My memoir, "The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry," from Viking/Penguin is the first book to look inside the famed culinary school Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. You can read an excerpt from the book, and also take a look at a few sample of clips and writing. Also, take a look at the reviews it has been getting.

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