Extended New York Times Article
Maine wild child Erin French grows up slightly feral but learns to love the landscape’s abundance and the land under her feet in Finding Freedom: A Cook’s Story Remaking a Life From Scratch. I spoiler-alerted myself when after less than 100 pages in I Googled Erin French and basically got the nutshell of this scrappy woman’s hard luck resume (abusive father, young single motherhood, college drop-out, abusive husband, drug and alcohol addiction, recovery, and salvation) then after reading the book, I wanted to see images and read the New York Times article about her restaurant The Lost Kitchen and basically got the Cliff Notes of the book but with photos. Skip the book, read the article.
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