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Oh, girls, chicken, drinking, baby, and we're all about it.

Hi, everyone. You're listening to Radio Cherry Bomb, and I'm your host, Carrie Diamond. I'm the founder and editor of Cherry Bomb magazine. I'm coming to you from Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center in New York City. On today's show, I'm talking with Aaron French, one of our favorite guests around here. Aaron is the chef and founder of The Lost Kitchen, a special restaurant up in Freedom, Maine. The only way to get a reservation is to send a postcard.

Erin is also the author of the memoir Finding Freedom and of two great cookbooks. And of course, she's a Cherrybaum cover store. I'm talking with Erin today about her brand new TV show on the Magnolia Network. It's called Getting Lost with

Aaron French. Each week, Erin and her husband Michael tour the country in search of new ingredients

and inspiration. Stay tuned for our conversation. This episode of Radio Cherrybaum is supported by

Open Table. As you may know, we've been on the road this summer with Open Table for our

Sit With Us community dinner series, which highlighted amazing female chefs and restaurateurs in the

Cherry Bomb and Open Table networks. Thank you to everyone who joined us, and to the amazing

chefs and teams at the featured restaurants. We kick things off in early June in New Orleans with

Chef Melissa Arrugio at Alma, and then we headed to Atlanta for an evening with LeBahn June in New Orleans with Chef Melissa Arrujo at Alma.

And then we headed to Atlanta for an evening with Le Bonnash, with Chef Roe Vakili.

We were in Dallas at Jose with Chef Anastasia Cognonez Pitman,

and we had a sweet ending to our series at Nestrana in Portland, Oregon with chef Kathy Wims.

It was such a treat meeting so many of you. Beautiful food, beautiful people. It's been so much fun. Thank you to OpenTable for bringing these experiences to life with us. By the way, if you are interested in curated dining events like the Sit With Us dinners, check out the OpenTable experiences on their app and website. Head to opentable.com backslash experiences to explore what's happening near you

or use it to find fun events to enjoy on your travels,

like OpenTable SummerSets, a dinner series that combines music and food to create one-of-a-kind evenings

in cities like Miami and New Orleans.

A little housekeeping?

Thanks to everyone who joined us last Friday

at Elizabeth Poets Rancho San Julien in Santa Barbara County

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