- Hardcover: 227 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (17 Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743439678
- ISBN-13: 978-0743439671
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,498,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Betty Fussell author of "The Story of Corn" AND "My Kitchen Wars" Like an earlier Colette, Rossant writes with such engaging warmth and humanity that the reader is instantly drawn into the rites of passage of a schoolgirl in Paris, whose mixed heritage is difficult but whose love of food ripens into the fruitful loves of a woman grown.
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The author and journalist recounts how she was placed in the post-World War II home of her bitter Parisian grandmother and how she coped by throwing herself into cooking before her hotelier stepfather took her to accompany his chef scouting tours.
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from cairo to paris--a remarkable life with recipes, 16 April 2003
By julia m collins - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Return to Paris (Hardcover)
I don't usually read food-related books. I generally stick with novels or straightforward history/biography. Yet I could not resist Colette Rossant's earlier memoir, Memories of a Lost Egypt, for its poignant, delectable interweaving of memories, recipes, and passionate observations about the tastes and foods she discovered as a child growing up in remarkable circumstances. (Her recipes are fabulous, by the way--easy to recreate.) Rossant's new book, Return to Paris, continues the story of her extraordinary upbringing. I really recommend reading both books, which are delightfully different but ideal companions. In fact, I so loved Rossant's evocation of Cairo in both writing and recipes, and her candid portrait of her family there, that I wasn't sure at first how I would react to her new memoir's focus on Paris, where she returned as a teenager. As it turns out, I enjoyed the dramatic turn this book reflects, in both her life and her culinary education, as she describes her difficult adjustment to postwar life in a country so different from her beloved Egypt. I was touched by young Colette's largeness of spirit as she accepts her losses and isolation, and opens up to the delights of Paris and its food.
Rossant is a wonderful writer with an explorer's personality, which makes her books transcend their genre. Lovers of good stories and good writing, as well as marvelous food, will enjoy Return to Paris. I'd like to add that given the events of our time, in particular the appalling anti-French and anti-Arab behavior some folks exhibit, it is compelling to read how one young person bridged two strikingly different cultures with grace, open eyes, and receptive tastebuds.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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The Piaf of Food Memoirs!, 18 April 2003
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Return to Paris (Hardcover)
.Reading _Return to Paris_ (and preparing its recipes) is like listening to a Piaf song, at once strikingly beautiful and hauntingly sad, something that commands your attention to the very end.
So, dear reader, beware! For should you open the first page of this book, you may find yourself swept away to a Paris you never knew of, to return to a present made a little sadder by finding there are no more pages left to turn.
I also recommend these other books by Rossant which I have read:
- Memories of a Lost Egypt (the first of her food memoirs)
- Bocuse a la Carte (translator)
- Colette Rossant's After Five Gourmet
- Colette's Slim Cuisine
- New Kosher Cooking
- Vegetable
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Dinner with Colette, 26 May 2003
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Return to Paris (Hardcover)
I loved this little book and read it in one sitting on a rainy Sunday afternoon. It made me wish that Colette would invite me to dinner! The writing swept me along throughout the journeys in her life. The recipes were a surprise bonus for me as I had never read her other books and had no idea she was known for cuisine. It was the beautiful cover that sold me! Highly recommend this book. I can barely cook, but am going to try the Agvolemono soup, a favorite from my 20's when I worked upstairs from a Greek Deli in downtown Boston.
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