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Apricots on the Nile

By Colette Rossant

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Apricots on the Nile

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A funny and compelling memoir that guides us through a Cairo upbringing and a Parisian adolesence with the help of some mouth-watering recipes 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
2002-02-01
Publication Date:
2002-02-04
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0747558167
ISBN13:
9780747558163
Weight:
123 g
Height:
111 cm
Width:
179 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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