The Resource The measure of my powers : a memoir of food, misery, and Paris, Jackie Kai Ellis
The measure of my powers : a memoir of food, misery, and Paris, Jackie Kai Ellis
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The item The measure of my powers : a memoir of food, misery, and Paris, Jackie Kai Ellis represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vaughan Public Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
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The item The measure of my powers : a memoir of food, misery, and Paris, Jackie Kai Ellis represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vaughan Public Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
- Summary
- "On the surface, Jackie Kai Ellis's life was the one that every woman--herself included--wanted. She was in her late twenties and married to a handsome man, she had a successful career as a designer, and a home that she shared with her husband. But instead of feeling fulfilled, happy, and loved, each morning she'd wake up dreading the day ahead, searching for a way out. Depression clouded every moment, the feelings of inadequacy that had begun in childhood now consumed her, and her marriage was slowly transforming into one between two strangers--unfamiliar, childless, and empty. In this darkness, she could only find one source of light: the kitchen. It was the place where Jackie escaped, finding peace, comfort, and acceptance. 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, one woman 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. Told with insight and intimacy, and radiating with warmth and humor, The Measure of My Powers is an unforgettable experience of the senses."--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The measure of my powers : a memoir of food, misery, and Paris
- Title
- The measure of my powers
- Title remainder
- a memoir of food, misery, and Paris
- Statement of responsibility
- Jackie Kai Ellis
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "On the surface, Jackie Kai Ellis's life was the one that every woman--herself included--wanted. She was in her late twenties and married to a handsome man, she had a successful career as a designer, and a home that she shared with her husband. But instead of feeling fulfilled, happy, and loved, each morning she'd wake up dreading the day ahead, searching for a way out. Depression clouded every moment, the feelings of inadequacy that had begun in childhood now consumed her, and her marriage was slowly transforming into one between two strangers--unfamiliar, childless, and empty. In this darkness, she could only find one source of light: the kitchen. It was the place where Jackie escaped, finding peace, comfort, and acceptance. 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, one woman 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. Told with insight and intimacy, and radiating with warmth and humor, The Measure of My Powers is an unforgettable experience of the senses."--
- Assigning source
- From publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- CaOWLBI
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ellis, Jackie Kai
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Ellis, Jackie Kai
- Ellis, Jackie Kai
- Business women
- Depressed persons
- Food writers
- Food writing
- Food
- Target audience
- general
- Label
- The measure of my powers : a memoir of food, misery, and Paris, Jackie Kai Ellis
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 277 pages
- Isbn
- 9780147530394
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- colour illustrations
- System control number
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- pr01303167
- (CaOWLBI)pr01303167
- 390702
- Label
- The measure of my powers : a memoir of food, misery, and Paris, Jackie Kai Ellis
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 277 pages
- Isbn
- 9780147530394
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- colour illustrations
- System control number
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- pr01303167
- (CaOWLBI)pr01303167
- 390702
Library Locations
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Ansley Grove LibraryBorrow it350 Ansley Grove Road, Woodbridge, ON, L4L 5C9, CA43.796072 -79.563568
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Bathurst Clark Resource LibraryBorrow it900 Clark Avenue West, Vaughan, ON, L4J 8C1, CA43.803234 -79.452439
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Pierre Berton Resource LibraryBorrow it4921 Rutherford Road, Woodbridge, ON, L4L 1A6, CA43.817552 -79.595966
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