Cairo, 1937: French-born Colette Rossant is waiting out World War II among her father\'s Egyptian-Jewish relatives.
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..
Apricots on the Nile is a loving testament to Colette\'s adopted homeland.
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.
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.
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.
Cairo, 1937: French-born Colette Rossant is waiting out World War II among her father\'s Egyptian-Jewish relatives
