Full name: Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes

Author: Colette Rossant Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs, Travel Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing

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 époque 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 on the Nile is a loving testament to Colette's adopted homeland. With dozens of original recipes and family photographs, Colette's coming-of-age memoir is a splendid exploration of old Cairo in all its flavor, variety, and wide-eyed wonder. Similar books: Give a Girl a Knife by Amy Thielen My Kitchen Wars by Betty Fussell Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi Life From Scratch by Sasha Martin The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber Consuming Passions by Michael Lee West Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good by Kathleen Flinn Season to Taste by Molly Birnbaum Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl Poor Man's Feast by Elissa Altman Stuffed by Patricia Volk I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti by Giulia Melucci To Begin Again by M. F. K. Fisher Return to Paris by Colette Rossant The Salt Path by Raynor Winn Little Princes by Conor Grennan Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez