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Give a Girl a Knife
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A beautifully written food memoir chronicling one woman's journey from her rural Midwestern hometown to the intoxicating world of New York City fine dining - and back again - in search of her culinary roots.
Before Amy Thielen frantically plated rings of truffled potatoes in some of New York City's finest kitchens - for chefs David Bouley, Daniel Boulud, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten - she grew up in a Northern Minnesota town home to the nation's largest French fry factory, the headwaters of the fast food nation, with a mother whose generous cooking dripped with tenderness, drama, and an overabundance of butter.
Inspired by her grandmother's tales of cooking in the family farmhouse, Thielen moves north with her artist husband to a rustic, off-the-grid cabin deep in the woods. There, standing at the stove three times a day, she finds the seed of a growing food obsession that leads her to the sensory madhouse of New York's top haute cuisine brigades. But, like a magnet, the foods of her youth draw her back home, where she comes face to face with her past and a curious truth: that beneath every foie gras sauce lies a rural foundation of potatoes and onions.
Amy Thielen's coming-of-age story pulses with energy, a cook's eye for intimate detail, and a dose of dry Midwestern humor. Give a Girl a Knife offers a fresh, vivid view into New York's high-end restaurants before returning Thielen to her roots, where she realizes that the marrow running through her bones is not demi-glace but gravy - thick with nostalgia and hard to resist.
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- Gary J. Glomski
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good book
very easy read with lots of good tricks on cooking. gr8 story highly recommended for your enjoyment 😉
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- Lorna
- 06-26-18
Easy to listen to.
This book was suggested by a friend. It is not at all my usual style or genre, however it was pleasant enough and I had an easy time listening. Unlike some other books, I didn't devour it voraciously, but instead pecked away at it whenever the mood struck.
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- Janice Olson
- 09-06-17
Give A GirlA Knife: A Memoir
I absolutely loved this book. Growing up in Minnesota, I could relate to so many of the experiences Amy Thielen wrote about. This book brought me back to my childhood memories around the dinner table. If I could choose a friend, I would pick Amy Thielen! She is so likable, and down to earth. A true Minnesotan! She has led an interesting life by following her dreams.
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- Eric
- 01-02-18
Brings me back to my Midwest roots
I really enjoy Amy Thielen’s cook book and cooking show so I was very excited to see that she had written a memoir about her journey to cooking via Minnesota and New York. I specifically loved the descriptions of New York, its sights sounds...and smells. She vividly depicts the kitchen and cooking scene in New York as well as her adventures in rural Minnesota. I was born in Minneapolis and spent summers in rural Minnesota so the mention of sauerkraut and ring bologna bring back a flood of memories. My favorite parts are the descriptions of cooking in New York. I wish the entire book was spent on this narrative but like her real life, Ms. Thielen’s book is divided between New York and Minnesota. While I enjoyed the Minnesota narrative — meeting her husband, fixing up their rural cabin and eventually settling in Park Rapids, MN — I longed for more ‘dirt’ on the trials and tribulations of the restaurant scene. Still, the narration is superb and the story very good.
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This was ok but nothing that left an impression on me. I vacillated between rooting for Amy and being put off by her. More Meh than Yeah.
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- Minneapolis listener
- 09-23-22
Remarkable
I have read several chef memoirs lately, and this one is my favorite. Thielen is deeply interested in food — how it grows, how it’s treated immediately and how it is handled after that.
It is all meaningful to her, and the gorgeous way she writes about it makes that very clear.
If you enjoy her memoir about her NYC/Upper Minnesota life, please be sure to sample her two seasons from the Food Network on Prime and her gorgeous James Beard award winning cookbook. Amy is a great writer, a hard worker and the real thing.
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- Kerry
- 01-16-20
A Beautifully Written, Heartfelt Memoir
Loved every word. What an interesting life! A great take on food, family, the choices we make, and where they take us.
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- Etoile NEOhio
- 06-03-22
Very enjoyable
She has led an interesting life. Now that I have listened to the book, I wish I could see her TV show, but not enough to pay for it on Amazon Prime.
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- Jeanne Markell
- 07-18-22
I love this so much I listen to it and then read it
As a Minnesotan to grow up in a small town and did not return I really appreciated Amy’s love and nostalgia about her childhood
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- 08-06-23
Fun 1st Half. Boring second half.
The 1st half of the book is fun as you follow Amy in restaurants out of cooking school. However, the 2nd half of the book is mind numbingly boring. She talks about the most mundane details of her life. She also inexplicably jumps from the most interesting part of her life (cooking in NYC) to when she was a child and continues on to after she returns to MN. It's like someone told her that the rest of her book was boring so she should put the most interesting part 1st. However there is no explanation for the jump. It feels disjointed and made me hope for more of the type of the story I heard in the beginning. But that never happened. Had the book started with the beginning of her life, I wouldn't have read it. I had a really difficult time finishing it.
I wanted to read a book about a professional chef and thought it would be fun that she goes back to MN after being a chef in NYC. Well, the 2nd half of the book has almost no professional chef stories in it. I thought she would go back to MN to start a restaurant, but she instead decides to stop working in restaurants altogether and tells you the story of mundane daily life and being broke again. It's just her standing in grocery stores, gardening, talking to small town folks about any old thing, and choosing not to do the thing that made her interesting.
I don't understand how this book has such good reviews. It's like reading a boring person's diaries--any trivial detail is included. Also the arc of the story is pretty disappointing. She starts off adrift in life and broke but enjoying living off the land. She then makes it somewhat in NYC as a chef, and then returns to where she started. I'm glad she is happy and enjoys her life but that doesn't mean it makes an interesting story.
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