If 10,000 phone calls sounds like a lot, try sorting through more than 10,000 note cards. The Lost Kitchen – the secluded, seasonal restaurant in a refurbished old mill in Freedom that was inundated with 10,000 phone calls in 24 hours for reservations last year – is now being swamped with snail-mail requests for one of its […]
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A popular Maine restaurant goes retro with its reservation system
Most restaurants are constantly on the hunt for new technology to handle day-to-day business such as reservations. The Lost Kitchen in Freedom is taking a step back this year, asking diners to mail in their reservation requests for the 2018 season. The 40-seat restaurant in an old mill in Freedom, owned by Erin French, usually […]
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Lost Kitchen in Freedom overwhelmed with reservatons at 40-seat restaurant
This undated photo provided by Clarkson Potter/Penguin Random House shows the restored 19th century mill in the tiny town of Freedom, Maine, where The Lost Kitchen restaurant is located. Restaurant owner and chef Erin French has just come out with a cookbook called “The Lost Kitchen” that offers recipes and tells the remarkable story of […]
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Teen driver OK after backing car over utility pole support wire
FREEDOM — Authorities say a 16-year-old driver wasn’t hurt when she backed up her car onto a utility pole support wire Thursday. Chief Deputy Jason Trundy of the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office tells WMTW-TV law enforcement was able to help the teen out of her car.
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Freedom mother, boyfriend accused of smoking pot with child
FREEDOM — A local woman and her boyfriend have been charged after allegedly smoking marijuana with her 13-year-old son, according to police. A concerned individual called the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office at the beginning of August to complain that the boy had been given the drug by his relatives, and Detective Gerald Lincoln investigated, Chief […]
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Warning: Childhood can be hazardous to your health
When I was a boy, each day was a date with death. By today’s standards, anyway. We used to climb trees like monkeys, and sometimes we’d fall out of them. Falling out of trees was half the fun of climbing them. It was also how we verified, once and for all, that gravity was real. […]
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Worldwide kale seed shortage reverberates in Maine
FREEDOM — Just a few years ago, if kale was seen anywhere, it was lurking on restaurant plates and salad bars as a garnish or hiding in the kitchens of hard-core health nuts. What a difference the years have made. Kale’s curly green leaves have become ubiquitous in the United States, equally at home, farm […]
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Rescuer says ‘solution is simple’ for preventing poisoned birds: Maine sportsmen can’t use lead bullets
FREEDOM — Diane Winn has three patients who are suffering from lead poisoning, and the prognosis for their survival is poor. The patients are a golden eagle, a bald eagle and a Canada goose that Winn is working hard to rehabilitate at the nonprofit Avian Haven in Freedom. Most of the problem with lead poisoning […]