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Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch
Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch
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Overview
From culinary maestro Erin French comes a debut memoir of the kitchen that is as useful for aspiring chefs as it is for anyone struggling with their everyday. French holds nothing back as she bares her life journey for an immersive and inspirational read.
**New York Times Bestseller**
This program is read by the author.
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 listeners 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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books
“This is a beautiful memoir of resilience, creativity, and amazing cooking. I was totally inspired and you will be too!” Ina Garten
"Erin French is a talented chef, a successful entrepreneur, a beautiful young woman, and a passionate promoter of living the 'good life.' This book chronicles the incredible ups, and relatable downs, of building a life and a business." Martha Stewart
"Erin is an overcomer and a risk-taker. She’s the kind of person who, when faced with a setback, pushes forward and makes beauty out of hardship. Her story is full of passion and courage, and when you read this book, you will walk away feeling inspired and encouraged in your own life.” Joanna Gaines, Co-Founder, Magnolia
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781250791078 |
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Publisher: | Macmillan Audio |
Publication date: | 04/06/2021 |
Product dimensions: | 1.00(w) x 1.00(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Part 1 Hope
1 Bacon and Ice Cream 3
2 Tapioca and Kittens 10
3 We Were Speeding; We Were Spoiled 19
4 Days, Nights, Years in a Diner 26
5 Memories of a Meatloaf 35
6 The Sound of Harleys 43
7 The Full Boar 49
Part 2 Unity
8 It Better Be Blue 57
9 Making a Mother 65
10 Singing for Our Supper 73
11 Sawdust and Shiny Floors 81
12 Amaranth and Fried Chicken 95
13 Vinalhaven 108
14 Layers of Angst 116
Part 3 Prospect
15 The Triangle Made of Bricks 123
16 The Clinking of Glasses, the Flicker of Candles 134
17 Physical, Mental, Emotional 141
18 Kicking, Clawing, Falling 150
19 Nineteen Steps 162
20 Seventy-two 175
21 Time to Go, Girl 182
Part 4 Liberty
22 A Gray Day in Maine 195
23 Who Saved Who? 201
24 To the Bat Cave 206
25 Bittersweet Breakup Brownies 215
26 Potholes and Pavement 224
Part 5 Freedom
27 Leaves of Three 243
28 Take Me Back 251
29 Starting from Scratch 256
30 Women of Waldo 262
31 The Awakening of a Woman 271
32 A House the Color of Strawberries 277
33 There's No Place Like Home 283
Acknowledgments 291