| Title | : | Finding Freedom: A Cooks Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch |
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| ISBN | : | 1250312345 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 978-1250312341 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle, Hardcover, Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 pages |
| Publication | : | Celadon Books |
From Erin French, owner of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, a TIME world dining destination, a life affirming memoir about survival, renewal, and finding a community to lift her up
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.
Finding Freedom: A Cooks Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch Reviews
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Loved this book! Definitely worth the read and an inspiration
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I loved this book I was crying when I finished it. I found it to be honest and inspiring. Now I just need to dine at the Lost Kitchen
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Erin French’s story took me on such a roller coaster ride of emotions as I experienced her ups and downs, love and hate, weakness and powerfulness as I read this book. I didn’t know what I was getting into with her story and it will take me some time to digest it. I
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Erin French's open, honest and sometimes brutal autobiographical book has gone to the top of our personal reading list. Her account of her battles with personal demons, toxic people in her life and and persevere in her struggle to find HOME is a compelling work that
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I would have subtitled this delicious memoir—Finding Freedom by Erin French—“Flour Child” (see page 70). This memoir has allowed this 80 year old to fantasize about how to engage with local farmers’ market vendors to create his own Erin French style supper club. That won’t
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Not always a happy, easy read, but deeply inspirational and moving. Absolutely worth your purchase and time. I can guarantee you will pass this book along to a friend when you are done. Definitely recommend.
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Local girl
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It's my fault, I should have read the description better, but I was trying to purchase a lot of X'mas presents at one sitting. Realizing it was not a cookbook, but a biography, I was really disappointed because I was shopping for cookbooks for my friends. I did read the
