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The measure of my powers : a memoir of food, misery, and Paris

Title
  1. The measure of my powers : a memoir of food, misery, and Paris / Jackie Kai Ellis.
Published by
  1. [Vancouver, B.C.] : Appetite by Random House, [2017]
  2. ©2017
Author
  1. Kai Ellis, Jackie.

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Description
  1. 277 pages : color illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Kai Ellis, Jackie
  2. Cooking > Psychological aspects
  3. Depression in women
  4. Cooks > France > Paris > Biography
  5. Canadians > France > Paris > Biography
  6. Cooking > France > Paris
  7. Cooks > Canada > Biography
  8. Women cooks > Canada > Biography
  9. Confectionery
  10. Appetizers
  11. Pastry
  12. Successful people > Biography
  13. Cooking, French
  14. Businesswomen > British Columbia > Vancouver > Biography
  15. Food writers > British Columbia > Vancouver > Biography
  16. Businesswomen
  17. Canadians
  18. Cooking
  19. Cooks
  20. Food writers
  21. Manners and customs
  22. Successful people
  23. Women cooks
  24. Paris (France) > Social life and customs
  25. Paris (France) > Biography
  26. France > Biography
  27. British Columbia > Vancouver
  28. Canada
  29. France
  30. France > Paris
Genre/Form
  1. Autobiographies.
  2. Biography.
Call number
  1. JFD 18-2474
Author
  1. Kai Ellis, Jackie.
Title
  1. The measure of my powers : a memoir of food, misery, and Paris / Jackie Kai Ellis.
Publisher
  1. [Vancouver, B.C.] : Appetite by Random House, [2017]
Copyright date
  1. ©2017
Edition
  1. First edition.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
ISBN
  1. 9780147530394 (softcover)
  2. 0147530393 (softcover)
Research call number
  1. JFD 18-2474
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