Finding Freedom : a cook's story; remaking a life from scratch
(Book)

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. -- adapted from jacket