Erin French turned a string of early catering gigs into a secret suppers series in her apartment. She took her dinners on the road, organizing traveling "fork-to-field" dinners from a tricked-out 1965 Airstream trailer, before returning to her tiny hometown, Freedom, Maine, to build her dream restaurant, The Lost Kitchen, in a restored 1834 gristmill. Each spring, the day the phone line opens to accept reservations, the restaurant books up for the entire year. This is her first book.
“This Freedom, Maine, restaurant, located in a restored 1800s mill,
is a hot ticket these days, and has the reservation wait list to
prove it. French, whose beautiful story needs to be
heard, truly delivers with a book full of fantastic seasonal
recipes like Maine halibut Niçoise.”—Tasting Table
“This charming, tremendously personal book speaks so beautifully of
the remote and glorious land it comes from and is packed with
wonderful ‘perfectly imperfect’ tales of life, cooking, and the
love of place. Erin French’s passion is contagious and her
simple but nuanced and detailed ingredient-focused cooking
captivating. Think Wood-Smoked Leg of Lamb with Garlic Scape & Mint
Pesto, Fried Green Tomatoes with Buttermilk & Chives, and Sweet
Parsnip Cake with Hazelnuts & Mascarpone—oh, my!”—Suzanne Goin
“Long before I got to the very tempting recipes in The Lost
Kitchen, I was hooked by Erin French’s charming storytelling. Home
cooks will enjoy the warm tone in which Erin has written her
recipes. They are a breeze to follow, call for only a handful of
mostly easy-to-find ingredients, and reveal the good life of the
four seasons in Maine.”—Nancy Silverton
“One of the most magical experiences of my life was eating at Erin
French’s Lost Kitchen, a magnificent restaurant-in-a-mill in
Freedom, Maine. The food was deeply personal, local, and delicious.
I am filled with joy at the prospect of re-creating some of the
dishes at home from the recipes in this gorgeous cookbook.”—Dana
Cowin
“At first I thought this was simply a gorgeous restaurant book full
of the food I love to eat, but now I think Erin French has done
something more magical than that; hers is that luscious, dim
restaurant you go to in your dreams, the one that feeds you in
every sense of the word. Her food isn’t just beautiful—although it
is—it also contains emotions, moods, and a lot of love for her
Maine roots.”—Amy Thielen
“Part of the allure in perusing The Lost Kitchen, I admit, is that
I won’t be scoring a reservation to Erin French’s boutique
restaurant anytime soon. So re-creating her food is as close as
I’ll get to understanding why the Lost Kitchen has become such a
dining destination. Bordering on precious, some might say, but the
cookbook is both aspirational and attainable. And it could be the
only one I read this year that offered directions for concocting a
milk-and-honey body scrub.”—The Washington Post, Best Cookbooks of
2017
“A sensory joy. The 100 recipes are simple seasonal fare,
creatively elevated and beautifully photographed. . . . French’s
story reads like a novel. . . . The recipes in The Lost Kitchen
beckon you to keep returning for more.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
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