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, ...
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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.
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...or near enough. Amazingly detailed recall of a childhood in a europhile (sephardic/french/egyptian ) moderately affluent large extended family in Cairo in the 1930s. Nothing too dreadful happens, despite dramatic history taking place all around, but the young girl, while comfortable, loved and popular, tries to make her way in the world feeling very alone as she is in effect abandoned by her young, glamourous, ambivalently-regarded, mother for a life of international travel. Food ( consuming it is described in loving detail), is her comfort, and later career, and the autobiography is peppered with recipes of middle-eastern dishes. Description of a sight that cannot be seen anymore- the Nile flood.
Visiting Cairo three decades later, she searches out the haunts of the europhiles and ex-pats.
Somehow a very engaging book, as is Colette's continued biography 'Return to Paris'.
pica
Jan 26, 2012
fun, but nor more
I was interested in the book as a complement to Claudia Roden's several cookbooks covering Middle Eastern, particularly Sephardic cookery.
This little book is a fond memoir, with interesting touches of family history. The recipes have been "covered" elsewhere.