Erin French on Maine, the Lost Kitchen, and a Mammoth Cross-Country Road Trip

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4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Each year, Erin French receives 60,000 postcards from people asking if they can dine at her Maine restaurant The Lost Kitchen. “It really becomes a luck of the draw lottery. We have big post office bins that arrive and we literally reach in, we grab a postcard, we call that person immediately and say, ‘Okay, when do you want to come?’” This episode, Erin shares with Lale what it’s like to experience her beloved restaurant, now in its 11th season, and spills on her new cooking and travel show on Max, Getting Lost With Erin French, which sees the chef road trip across the US in search of new ingredients and inspiration, and sharing meals with Texas farmers, New Orleans chefs, and more.

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0:00.0	Hi there, I'm Lale Aricoglu, and this is Women Who Travel.
0:20.6	When I got Erin French, chef and owner of restaurant The Lost Kitchen on the line last week,
0:25.6	I'd just gotten back from my own glorious Sunday afternoon in her home state of Maine.
0:30.3	It's why we suffer through winters here days like yesterday.
0:35.0	I mean, it was just magical.
0:39.7	It's incredible. I feel so fortunate to live here and call this place home. But don't ask me that in November or March, I may not say the same answer.
0:47.6	I want to get into your travels and talk about food. But before we go out into the world,
0:54.0	obviously I wanted to start where it all began,
0:56.0	which is, as we're talking about, Maine,
0:59.0	which is where your restaurant, the Lost Kitchen,
1:01.9	lives and operates,
1:03.4	and is where other people travel to for it.
1:06.3	Tell me the story.
1:07.7	Story of the Lost Kitchen.
1:14.6	You know, it was really accidental in a way. I was born in Freedom, Maine, tried for the longest time to escape from anywhere,
1:20.6	Maine, and kept finding myself being pulled back here whether I liked it or not.
1:25.6	And, you know, as the years went on and I got older
1:29.3	and hopefully a bit more wiser, I realized that this was an incredible place to call home. And I
1:36.4	started to lean into it and really celebrate this place of, you know, where I was born.
1:45.9	Open the Lost Kitchen here in Freedom, 2014.
1:51.7	Actually, July 4th, so we're just celebrating our anniversary.
1:55.2	Happy birthday, Lost Kitchen.
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