Erin French, a born-and-raised Mainer, is the owner and chef of the Lost Kitchen, a 50-seat restaurant in Freedom, Maine, listed among Time’s World’s Greatest Places to visit and Bloomberg’s "12 Restaurants Worth Traveling Across the World to Experience." With two New York Times bestsellers to her name, FINDING FREEDOM and BIG HEART LITTLE STOVE, Erin is featured in three seasons of the Magnolia Network series "The Lost Kitchen" and "Getting Lost with Erin French," where she travels the country searching for new experiences and culinary inspiration, streaming on HBO Max.

Erin knows the importance of simple pleasures found in gathering for thoughtfully prepared meals. Her love of Maine and sharing its delicious heritage with dinner guests has garnered several James Beard nominations and the attention of The New York Times, Martha Stewart Living, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe and Food & Wine, as well as NPR’s "All Things Considered," "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "Today."

After more than a decade in business, the Lost Kitchen has become so much more than a restaurant, now boasting a farmer’s market, overnight cabins, a retail shop and a café called the Little Lost Kitchen.

Books by Erin French

Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

by Erin French - Memoir, Nonfiction

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 dad’s 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 classic American story --- invites readers to Erin's corner of her beloved Maine to share the real person behind the “girl from Freedom” fairy tale, and the not-so-picture-perfect struggles that have taken every ounce of her strength to overcome, and that make Erin’s life triumphant.