by Colette Rossant (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: UK open market ed
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Published: 04 Feb 2002
ISBN 10: 0747558167
ISBN 13: 9780747558163
Book Overview: 'A lovely little book' Nigella Lawson 'A sensuous evocation of a luxurious world' DAILY MAIL 'An enchanting and evocative memoir of her childhood, growing up in Cairo in the glory days of the Forties' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
Prizes: Shortlisted for Thomas Cook Travel Book Award 2002.