Apricots on the Nile by Colette Rossant

Apricots on the Nile by Colette Rossant

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Summary

With the help of some mouth-watering recipes, this memoir guides us through a Cairo upbringing, and a Parisian adolesence.

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Apricots on the Nile by Colette Rossant

In 1937, five-year-old Colette Rossant arrived in Cairo from Paris with her Egyptian Jewish father and beautiful French mother. When her father dies Colette's flighty mother abandons the little girl to her wealthy grandparents. She soon settles into their luxuriant, food centred lifestyle - spending afternoons in the spice filled kitchen; accompanying her grandmother to the bazaar; and feasting on the delicious Egyptian food. At fifteen Colette is brought back to Paris with her mother, never to see her grandparents again, and only to return to Egypt thirty years later. In this charming, funny, and moving memoir, accompanied by mouth watering recipes, she evokes an Egypt lost, to her and to us, forever.
Colette Rossant is a James Beard nominated food writer and is a columnist for the DAILY NEWS. She lives in New York with her husband.
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ISBN 13 9780747558163
ISBN 10 0747558167
Title Apricots on the Nile
Author Colette Rossant
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2002-02-04
Number of pages 192
Prizes Short-listed for Thomas Cook Travel Book Award 2002
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.