“As I stood at my window, I felt a pang of sadness. The hotel was surrounded with modern office buildings, elevated highways, and speedboats racing along the Nile. Where was the old felouk gliding slowly on the water?”
See Colette Rossant’s full feature in the print version of a.magazine’s first issue.
Colette Rossant was born in Paris, but raised in Egypt by her Egyptian grandparents. She returned to Paris at fifteen to complete her studies. At twenty, Colette married a young American architect and painter, moving with him to New York. Colette has always been very interested in food and fresh produce. She became a journalist for New York magazine, writing about restaurants and farmers’ markets. Later, she also wrote about her travels in places such as Bhutan, Australia, Ecuador, China, and Japan.
Colette has written ten cookbooks based on her cooking and travels. She has also published three memoirs. Colette currently splits her time between a townhouse in SoHo, New York, and an old farm house in Le Perche, France. She is currently working on a novel set in Le Perche.
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