An invitation to dinner

I had not read a book cover-to-cover in a day in quite sometime, but this memoir hooked me and life provided the perfect pause for me to immerse myself in its pages. Erin French’s story, and with it the story of The Lost Kitchen, is uncomfortable, deeply moving, inspiring, and full of growth. It is that of a family gathering around their own, whether blood related or not, to pick up the pieces when life falls apart. The simplicity of French’s beginning and her desire to bring people together and care for them around a table shines through in her writing and draws the reader in. Her descriptions of her care for food, its origin, and its nourishment for both body and soul are soothing in a unique way. The whole book felt like an invitation to dinner.

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