Finding freedom : a cook's story ; remaking a life from scratch

Summary: As a teenager, French fell in love with food while working the line at her dad's diner. She found her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th-century mill. In her memoir, she opens up to the challenges, stumbles, and victories that have led her to the exact place she was always meant to be: multiple rock-bottoms; survival as a jobless single mother; pills that promised release but delivered addiction; and of the son who was her guiding light as she slowly rebuilt her personal and culinary life around the solace she found in food. --

Record details

ISBN: 1250312345
ISBN: 9781250312341
Physical Description: viii, 292 pages ; 25 cm
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Celadon Books, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Hope. Bacon and ice cream ; Tapioca and kittens ; We were speeding, we were spoiled ; Days, nights, years in a diner ; Memories of a meatloaf ; The sound of Harleys ; The full boat -- Unity. It better be blue ; Making a mother ; Singing for our supper ; Sawdust and shiny floors ; Amaranth and fried chicken ; Vinalhaven ; Layers of angst -- Prospect. The triangle made of bricks ; The clinking of glasses, the flicker of candles ; Physical, mental, emotional ; Kicking, clawing, falling ; Nineteen steps ; Seventy-two ; Time to go, girl -- Liberty. A gray day in Maine ; Who saved who? ; To the bat cave ; Bittersweet breakup brownies ; Potholes and pavement -- Freedom. Leaves of three ; Take me back ; Starting from scratch ; Women of Waldo ; The awakening of a woman ; A house the color of strawberries ; There's no place like home.