For someone who doesn't cook very well, I do like cooking stories. I was a huge fan of Anthony Bourdain. I've watched a lot of Ina Garten shows. Martha Stewart is entertaining. And I've read a lot of cook memoirs. Let's add Finding Freedom to the list.
Erin French, from Maine, grew up working in her dad's diner. She thought she'd escape small town by being the first in her family to go to college. But, an unplanned pregnancy brought her "home". A jobless single mother, she thought she found salvation with an older man willing to love her and her son. Oops.
In this memoir, Erin French writes about her struggles with the wrong man, her addictions, her goals to have a restaurant, the loss of it, and her fight to rebuild her whole life and culinary career. She has packed a lot of living in a short time.
Now her Lost Kitchen is a cooking achievement, with folks clamoring to book reservations a year in advance. This book is honest, bold, and shows a woman with a food passion who found herself again.
cover blurb - There's a timeless connection between food and generosity, renewal, and freedom.
P.S. I want to visit her restaurant. Or just hang out on her patio. I'll take leftovers!
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