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Memories of a Lost Egypt A Memoir with Recipes

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ISBN-10: 0756760216

ISBN-13: 9780756760212

Edition: 1999

Authors: Colette Rossant

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"Matthew's presence transports me back to the Cairo kitchen, where I am tasting the ful that Ahmet, the cook, prepared and helping Grandmaman Marguerite mix dough while she sings songs to me in Arabic. Her family pride was profoundly linked to the kitchen, so when I attempted to make sambousek once for my friends and did not follow her recipe for this cheese-filled golden dough faithfully, she was outraged. "This recipe is at least hundreds of years old. You do not change it!" she shouted. I see her standing at the stove, a diminutive woman usually dressed in black. Her thick, curly, henna-dyed hair was pulled upward in a large chignon; there was always a lock of hair escaping that she…    
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Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: DIANE Publishing Company
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 159
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English