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 dada�TMs 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�� a classic American story a�� invites readers to Erina�TMs corner of her beloved Maine to share the real person behind the a��girl from Freedoma�\x9d fairytale.