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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I was given this book by a friend as a gift. I had not read her first memoir, Apricots on the Nile, and did not know the author at all. The book is a delight, warmly written, with delicious recipes and family photographs. The book chronicles the author’s – Colette -coming of age in Paris. As a teenager, Colette - an Egyptian Jewish convert to Catholicism –returned unwillingly with her mother to Paris in 1947 but her mother flees soon afterwards. Colette stayed with her bitter, malaisé grandmère and her older brother who having stayed in Paris during the war was a stranger to her. Her grandmère housed her not out of love but because she needed her allowance. Initially, Paris seems grey and forbidding; relatives conspired to marry her off suitably. She resisted through food. Taken under the wing of Mademoiselle Georgette, the family chef, she develops a taste and talent for French cooking. As her mother re-marries, Colette develops an affectionate bond with her stepfather who educates her in flavour and ingredients. He gave her and her American bridegroom a gastronomic tour of four-star France as a wedding gift. Colette recollects each meal and navigates the streets of Paris with its outdoor markets, bistros, café and restaurants menus and attempts to control her fate and her life through food. The book ends with her moving to New York in 1955 and the birth of their first daughter. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Paris, 1947: Colette Rossant returns to Paris after waiting out World War II in Cairo among her father's Egyptian-Jewish relatives. Initially, the City of Light seems gray and forbidding to the teenage Colette, especially after her thrill-seeking mother leaves her in the care of her bitter, "malaise" grandmother. Yet Paris will prove the place where Colette awakens to her senses. Taken under the wing of Mademoiselle Georgette, the family chef, she develops a taste and talent for French cooking. The streets of Paris soon become Colette's own as she navigates the outdoor markets and cafe menus and emerges into her new, gastronomical self. "Return to Paris" is an extraordinary coming-of-age story that charts the course of Colette's culinary adventures -- replete with expertly crafted recipes and family photographs. An exploration of passion in all its flavor and texture, Colette's memoir will live in the hearts and palates of readers for years to come. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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