"Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a teenager falling in love with food while working the line at her dad's diner and a young woman finding her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th century mill. This singular memoir--a classic American story--invites readers to Erin's corner of her beloved Maine to share the real person behind ...
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"Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a teenager falling in love with food while working the line at her dad's diner and a young woman finding her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th century mill. This singular memoir--a classic American story--invites readers to Erin's corner of her beloved Maine to share the real person behind the 'girl from Freedom' fairytale, and the not-so-picture-perfect struggles that have taken every ounce of her strength to overcome, and that make Erin's life triumphant. In Finding Freedom, Erin opens up to the challenges, stumbles, and victories that have led her to the exact place she was ever meant to be, telling stories of multiple rock-bottoms, of darkness and anxiety, of survival as a jobless single mother, of pills that promised release but delivered addiction, of a man who seemed to offer salvation but in the end ripped away her very sense of self. And of the beautiful son who was her guiding light as she slowly rebuilt her personal and culinary life around the solace she found in food--as a source of comfort, a sense of place, as a way of bringing goodness into the world. Erin's experiences with deep loss and abiding hope, told with both honesty and humor, will resonate with women everywhere who are determined to find their voices, create community, grow stronger and discover their best-selves despite seemingly impossible odds. Set against the backdrop of rural Maine and its lushly intense, bountiful seasons, Erin reveals the passion and courage needed to invent oneself anew, and the poignant, timeless connections between food and generosity, renewal and freedom"--
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I went into FINDING FREEDOM knowing nothing about Erin French or The Lost Kitchen. By the time I finished the book I was planning my trip to Freedom, Maine in my head, trying to figure out what my odds are of being selected to dine at The Lost Kitchen.
FINDING FREEDOM takes us through Erin French�s life. From her childhood helping her dad in his diner, to her cozy apartment dinner parties, her first restaurant, battles with addiction, a rocky divorce, and finally her famous restaurant The Lost Kitchen. If you enjoy food, I would highly recommend this book. French is very descriptive and I felt like I could smell and taste the food she was describing. It�s clear through her writing that she is extremely passionate about creating good, hearty, fresh meals and creating an atmosphere that allows for friends and family to bond over meals. I especially enjoyed the last couple of chapters that talk about the atmosphere and staff of The Lost Kitchen. The primarily female-run, cozy restaurant is now on my bucket list of places to go. In addition to food, French dives into heavy topics like addiction, divorce, abuse, and being a single mother. This book has so many different layers and I enjoyed learning about this remarkable woman. Thank you BookishFirst and Celadon Books for the ARC!
Content warnings: food, domestic violence, suicidal thoughts, animal death, alcoholism, drug use, drug abuse
