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Memories of Chocolate Cake
There are two sides to every story. Memories of Chocolate Cake is an intimate memoir by Tess Ellyn that explores the complexities of recovery and asks a deeper what is really being starved when one restricts?
At 22, Tess arrives in Paris to study at the famed Le Cordon Bleu, hoping to outrun the shadow of illness that’s followed her since she was 15. She’s chasing a dream—though she’s not entirely sure what that dream is. What she finds isn’t redemption exactly, but something more a slow reckoning with a body, a city, and the myths built around both.
Memories of Chocolate Cake traces one young woman’s coming-of-age through illness, ambition, love, and self-discovery—with moments that are painful, uplifting, and, at times, unexpectedly funny.
At 22, Tess arrives in Paris to study at the famed Le Cordon Bleu, hoping to outrun the shadow of illness that’s followed her since she was 15. She’s chasing a dream—though she’s not entirely sure what that dream is. What she finds isn’t redemption exactly, but something more a slow reckoning with a body, a city, and the myths built around both.
Memories of Chocolate Cake traces one young woman’s coming-of-age through illness, ambition, love, and self-discovery—with moments that are painful, uplifting, and, at times, unexpectedly funny.
303 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 13, 2026
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