Apricots on the Nile A Memoir with Recipes

Name: Apricots on the Nile A Memoir with Recipes
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ISBN: 9780753198810

ISBN-10: 0753198819

ISBN-13: 9780753198810

Edition: Large Type

Authors: Colette Rossant

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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 epoque 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…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books
Publication date: 2/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 168
Language: English

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.