Measure of My Powers
Subtitle: A Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated; Appetite by Random House
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780147530394
Subjects: Self-acceptance; Food
Description: 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.