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Lost Kitchen of Freedom, Maine, Booked a Year Ahead 

April 12, 2021 By Debbie Young

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A restaurant named Lost Kitchen in Freedom, Maine is booked a year ahead. The Wall Street Journal’s Moira Hodgson explains (abridged):

Every year thousands of people enter a lottery hoping for a table at the Lost Kitchen, a 40-seat restaurant in the remote town of Freedom, Maine, population 719. It’s booked up a year in advance, the customers chosen by lottery each spring from around 20,000 hopefuls who mail in postcards requesting a table.

The restaurant’s chef and owner, Erin French, never went to culinary school. Her food isn’t fancy or cutting edge: no froths, foams, gold flecks or dainty garnishes arranged with tweezers. She writes that she likes dishes reminiscent of childhood, “humble as new potatoes, fresh from the ground on a hot early-July day, creamy and sweet, their skins so soft and tender that all you wanted was a pinch of good crusty salt and a pat of butter to melt over the top of them.”

The author of a bestselling cookbook (“The Lost Kitchen: Recipes and a Good Life Found in Freedom, Maine”), Ms. French has now published a memoir, “Finding Freedom: A Cook’s Story Remaking a Life From Scratch.” In the cover photograph she’s hiding her face behind a giant bouquet of red and yellow poppies. It’s a pretty image at first glance, but there’s also something unsettling about it. With reason, as it happens, for the story Ms. French has to tell is dramatic.

By Moira Hodgson

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Debbie, our chief political writer of Richardcyoung.com, is also our chief domestic affairs writer, a contributing writer on Eastern Europe and Paris and Burgundy, France. She has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. Debbie lives in Key West, Florida, and Newport, Rhode Island, and travels extensively in Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga. Debbie has completed the 200-hour Krama Yoga teacher training program taught by Master Instructor Ruslan Kleytman. Debbie is a strong supporting member of the NRA.
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