Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes by Colette Rossant

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    • Categories: Bread & rolls, savory; Egyptian
    • Ingredients: milk; lard; all-purpose flour; sesame seeds; dried yeast
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  • mjes on July 07, 2018

    This volume is the first in the trilogy: 1. Apricots on the Nile 2. Return to Paris 3. The World in My Kitchen a.k.a. Madeleines in Manhattan.

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  • ISBN 10 0743475615
  • ISBN 13 9780743475617
  • Published Mar 30 2004
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 158
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster

Publishers Text

Cairo, 1937: French-born Colette Rossant is waiting out World War II among her father's Egyptian-Jewish relatives. From the moment she arrives at her grandparents' belle époque mansion by the Nile, the five-year-old Colette finds companionship and comfort among the other outsiders in her home away from home -- the cooks and servants in the kitchen. The chef, Ahmet, lets Colette taste the ful; she learns how to make sambusaks for her new friends; and she shops for semits and other treats in the Khan-al-Khalili market. Colette is beginning to understand how her family's culture is linked to the kitchen...and soon she will claim Egypt's food, landscape, and people as her own.

Apricots on the Nile is a loving testament to Colette's adopted homeland. With dozens of original recipes and family photographs, Colette's coming-of-age memoir is a splendid exploration of old Cairo in all its flavor, variety, and wide-eyed wonder.

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