Apricots on the Nile

Apricots on the Nile A Memoir with Recipes

In 1937 at the age of five, Colette Rossant leaves Paris to live with her grandparents in Egypt, soon settling into their luxuriant, food-centred lifestyle. She returns to Paris at 15, only revisiting Egypt 30 years later. In this memoir, she evokes an Egypt lost, to her and to us, forever.
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