After personal setbacks and losing her first restaurant, Erin French rebuilt her career in a small Maine town; her restaurant now receives around 60,000 reservation postcards a year

• Her restaurant, The Lost Kitchen, now receives around 60,000 reservation postcards annually, according to a report by Condé Nast Traveller.
• From her father's diner to her first restaurantFrench's relationship with food began in her hometown of Freedom, where her father ran a diner.