The release date for the English version of 'Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch' by
Erin French is Apr 2021. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A life-affirming story about survival, rejuvenation, and finding a community to uplift her comes from Erin French, owner and chef of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, a TIME international dining destination.
Erin French was a girl wandering 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 discovering her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th century mill, long before The Lost Kitchen became a world-renowned dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring. This unique memoir, a timeless American tale, transports readers to Erin's favorite corner of Maine to meet the real person hiding behind the "girl from Freedom" fairytale and to learn about the less-than-ideal challenges that have tested her resolve and given her a victorious life.
Erin shares her experiences of multiple rock bottoms, darkness and anxiety, surviving as a jobless single mother, pills that promised release but delivered addiction, and a man who seemed to offer salvation but ultimately tore away her very sense of self in Finding Freedom. These challenges, stumbles, and victories have brought Erin to the exact place she was always meant to be. And of the lovely son who served as her beacon of hope while she gradually reconstructed her social and culinary lives around the comforts she found in food, using it to create a feeling of home, comfort, and kindness in the world. Women everywhere who are determined to find their voices, build communities, become stronger, and discover their best selves despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles will be able to relate to Erin's experiences with profound loss and enduring hope, which are conveyed with humor and honesty. Erin explores the passion and bravery required to reinvent oneself against the backdrop of rural Maine and its lushly intense, rich seasons. She also explores the ageless, emotional connections between food and compassion, rejuvenation, and freedom.