The Beaucoup Bakery founder tells all in a stunning new memoir.

Jackie Kai Ellis

Out this month is The Measure of My Powers ($25) a deeply personal memoir from Vancouver’s Beaucoup Bakery founder, Jackie Kai Ellis. At times a story of suffering and loneliness, you’ll be buoyed by Ellis’s pursuit of food-born passion (and Paris!) peppered with recipes that marked key moments in her life—like a true Parisian-style croissant, which took her months of testing temperatures, folds and butters (she even tried to churn her own) until she got it right.

Alyssa Hirose

Alyssa Hirose

Alyssa Hirose is a Vancouver-based writer, editor, illustrator and comic artist. Her work has been featured in Vancouver magazine, Western Living, BCBusiness, Avenue, Serviette, Geist, BCLiving, Nuvo, Montecristo, The Georgia Straight and more. Her beats are food, travel, arts and culture, style, interior design and anything dog-related. She publishes a daily autobiographical comic on Instagram at @hialyssacomics.