| ISBN |
9780147530394 (paperback) |
| Author |
Kai Ellis, Jackie author. |
| Title |
The measure of my powers : a memoir of food, misery, and Paris / Jackie Kai Ellis. |
| Edition |
First edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
[Vancouver, B.C.] : Appetite by Random House, [2017] |
| ©2017 |
| Pagination etc. |
277 pages : colour illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Summary Note |
This is the story of how, armed with nothing but a love of food and the words of the great 20th century food writer M.F.K. Fisher, Jackie Kai Ellis begins a journey - from France to Italy, then the Congo and back again - to find herself. Along the way, she goes to pastry school in Paris, eats the most perfect apricots over the Tuscan hills, watches a family of gorillas grazing deep in the Congolese brush, has her heart broken one last time on a bridge in Lyon, and, ultimately, finds a path to life and joy. Includes several recipes. |
| Subject - Name |
Kai Ellis, Jackie |
| Subject |
Cooking -- Psychological aspects |
| Depression in women |
| Cooks -- France -- Paris -- Biography |
| Canadians -- France -- Paris -- Biography |
| Cooking -- France -- Paris |
| Cooks -- Canada -- Biography |
| Women cooks -- Canada -- Biography |
| Confectionery |
| Appetizers |
| Pastry |
| Successful people -- Biography |
| Cooking, French |
| Businesswomen -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Biography |
| Food writers -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Biography |
| Paris (France) -- Social life and customs |
| Paris (France) -- Biography |
| France -- Biography |
| Autobiographies. |
| Shelf Location |
B KAIE |
