The Lost Kitchen's Erin French on Losing Everything and Starting Over in Rural Maine

On Tuesdays, Erin French drives three-and-a-half hours, round-trip, to buy bread for her restaurant. It’s one of the two days a week that Tinder Hearth in Brooksville, Maine, offers its European-style, wood-fired loaves, and while she’s nearby, she can grab some of the “super-secret” proprietary blend that the girls at 44 North Coffee have roasted up for her. Could she just have it delivered? Of course—and sometimes she does—but...