This chef turned her trailer suppers into one of the most sought-after restaurants | Secret Table 

Very smart about her boundaries, too.When it stops being fun she says she'll let it go, and move on to something else. It's that spark of love that keeps it alive for her.

I live the next town over, never been able to eat there. No one I know locally has been able to eat there. Great idea

@@lookingglass9175 well, if you want..open your own local restaurant. You can have it closed to non-locals or whatever. She never set out to have it this way, but if you actually knew the story...you could’ve eaten there when it was first opened. It was after word of mouth spread so rapidly, and the phone reservations couldn’t be managed anymore, due to the insane volume. The postcard lottery was an idea they hatched to keep it manageable. She never had any idea that she’d run into such an issue, be so popular. Judgment comes from fear and/or lack of understanding. Unless you’ve lived it, or really sought to understand, you can’t really know.

As a Californian, now New Yorker, I’ve only ever been to Portland, Maine (don’t drive, so I’m often stuck visiting cities), but I’m so drawn to Maine. I want to see more!

That is what dining is about.

If you listen to her book, the food is one of the most important things though...not in the realm of competing with others, but in service of love to the diners. She carefully and meticulously gets her food from local farmers etc,. It is part of the whole picture. The best quality food, cooked the best way they can imagine, served in a warm environment, and with the intent of love. The food is the vessel.

Food for the soul, exactly!

Send a postcard.

It is indeed..

or narcissistic women. There are plenty of positive men out there like her current husband, Michael Dutton.

Empowerment starts with you, your mindset. While this lovely restaurant would be a great experience...it’s not the ticket to self empowerment. Erin did hard, hard work to get to her place of empowerment.

Yes! Most women want to collaborate, cooperate, can see the benefit to the bigger picture. My intimate relationships with men went south, due to their inabilities to work well as a team. I’m happier single. Maybe I need to find a woman companion?

Be inspired. Do what makes you happy. Seriously.

America isn't Mexico - everything is more expensive here, particularly unique experiences. Plus, I doubt you eat the multi-course meals every night that they provide during your visit. You're paying for not only the meal, but for a once-in-a-lifetime experience in an atmosphere such that I doubt you can find anywhere else. I'm praying my postcard gets drawn in 2023. I'll fly from my home in Alaska if I'm fortunate to have the opportunity.

I doubt they’d be that welcoming to you. Because I’ve seen other videos about her and it seems that all the evil she had to deal with in life are men - her father who hasn’t done her any good (except influencing her in learning how to cook young), her baby daddy (who I don’t know why she fell in love with and got pregnant with since he’s a bad man), all the male chefs in the world’s top restaurants since they don’t have a heart and just screaming in the kitchen (I guess these nale chefs just don’t have the passion to make the people happy with their food) and lastly, she’s currently married now (he’s also likely evil since he’s a man and cannot be seen).

@r g that is such a clear and meaningful message that I can use to make life better. Thank you.

Why would you do that? Just to be provocative? Not sure what a woman running a great restaurant has to do with politics. Also, why are you still hanging onto that thing? It's over.

I thought the same - and I’m a woman haha But she did say it was rough going first couple years plus she’s in a position to control who stays.... and goes. 😉 I’m guessing they’ve become sort of a family, which is a strong incentive to stay. But anyone with serious ambition and skill could learn the ropes and go create their own version somewhere else. I kinda hope they do bc I’d love to have that experience.

Exactly. Lol!

She never said women aren’t competitive. It’s not all or nothing. Yes, some women can be competitive...however, in the world of food, WAY more men are epically competitive. They are about ego, awards, title. She’s about serving amazing food to the people...more than about the competitive sphere. It’s a massive difference. Statistically and historically, men are more competitive than women. Doesn’t automatically mean that some women aren’t competitive. It’s not mutually exclusive. Thinking that way veers towards simplified cognitive realms, to make uncertain realms more “certain” even if based in fallacy. Historically, women (not all of course) are more cooperative, collaborative, and have better compromising skills than men. Look at big corporations, dictators, drug lords, and on and on...men. War, territorial moves, domination, generally are the games of men. Of course, there are some men who are fantastic at cooperation, compromise, and collaboration (pro-relationship skills)...but comparatively women as a whole are stronger in such traits.

@@Alphacentauri819 She didn't have to. It's an implication.

@@tognyd2349 wow. Your comprehension is poor. She wasn’t saying WOMEN aren’t competitive....she was saying her group of women and HER approach within the culinary world isn’t through a paradigm of competition. If you remain obtuse, you’re missing much in simple equations...yet think you have the whole picture. You don’t.

Well...she has no trouble getting people who will pay! Additionally, putting in the $$/time, energy, 16+ hr days, getting local/organic produce and seeing her own napkins, aprons, making her own floral arrangements...and on and on. If you don’t appreciate the dynamics that go in to it...just don’t write the postcard!! No one’s forcing anyone to do it! Most gladly go. It’s a special once in a lifetime thing.

Super. it's an insult to the chefs actually. No one cares if a man or woman is making their food. We only care if its great and worth its buck.

I think the disgusting arrogance (your words) is entirely yours, JC. She is phenomenally successful and did it entirely on her own terms, in a location few people could find without the aid of GPS or the internet. Most importantly, she's entitled to her own perspective and opinion.