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 0747558167
  • ISBN 13 9780747558163
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  • Published Feb 04 2002
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 192
  • Language English
  • Edition UK open market ed
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Bloomsbury
  • Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publishers Text

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.

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