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

ISBN: 9780147530400
ISBN: 0147530407
ISBN: 9780147530394
ISBN: 0147530393
Physical Description: remote 1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Canada : Appetite by Random House, 2017

Summary: 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.