Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes
by Colette Rossant

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Book Review: Bittersweet memories of a magical childhood
Summary: 5 Stars

I read the whole thing within a couple of hours - I simply couldn't stop indulging myself in descriptions of a exotic lifestyle so completely different from my own.

Rossant writes about a childhood surrounded by her large and wealthy Egyptian family where food and entertaining were high on the list of priorities. You can almost taste and smell the dishes she so vividly describes - it is a good thing that the recipes for ful medames, babaghanou and sambusaks are included in the book.

At the same time as Rossant shares her happy memories of the magial times she spent in the kichen helping Ahmet the cook, the reader also learns about the little girl who misses her dead father and absent mother.

Apricots on the Nile makes me want to travel to Cairo and buy watermelons at the main market - so I suppose the Egyptian tourist agency should be grateful to Rossant's inspiring memories.

By the way: I'm having a bit of a problem deciding where to keep the book - in the kichen or the library? Perhaps I'll have to buy another copy...

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