Colette Rossant
Colette Rossant is the author of eight cook-books and the memoirs Apricots on the Nile and Return to Paris . A James Beard Award-nominated journalist, she divides her time between New York and France.
Colette Rossant is the author of eight cook-books and the memoirs Apricots on the Nile and Return to Paris . A James Beard Award-nominated journalist, she divides her time between New York and France. See less
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Colette Rossant book reviews
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Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes
'A civilisation gone with the wind'
...or near enough. Amazingly detailed recall of a childhood in a europhile (sephardic/french/egyptian ) moderately affluent large extended family in Cairo in the 1930s. Nothing too dreadful happens ... Read More
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Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes
fun, but nor more
by pica, Jan 26, 2012
I was interested in the book as a complement to Claudia Roden's several cookbooks covering Middle Eastern, particularly Sephardic cookery.
This little book is a fond memoir, with interesting ... Read More
