Colette Rossant: 3 books
The World in My Kitchen
The Adventures of a (Mostly) French Woman in New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
"We are on our way to Le Havre. The train is going so fast that the landscape is all but a blur. From time to time, I can see a farm in the mist surrounded by a sea of green fields. I am excited but also scared. It is 1955, and we are on our way to New York."
So begins the marvelous journey...
by Colette Rossant
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Paris, 1947: Colette Rossant returns to Paris after waiting out World War II in Cairo among her father's Egyptian-Jewish relatives. Initially, the City of Light seems gray and forbidding to the teenage Colette, especially after her thrill-seeking mother leaves her in the care of her bitter, malaisé...
Apricots on the Nile
A Memoir with Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
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...