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Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes
Colette Rossant
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Description for Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes
Paperback. A Memoir with Recipes. 192 pages, illustrations. With the help of some mouth-watering recipes, this memoir guides us through a Cairo upbringing, and a Parisian adolesence. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1HBE; BGA; WBN. Dimension: 179 x 113 x 13. Weight: 110.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC LONDON
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747558163
SKU
V9780747558163
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Ref
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About Colette Rossant
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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