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Reports are in about
Windfall-Perche's transatlantic exchange with Hudson Valley, New York:
Washington Post,
Le Perche,
Le Lezard,
Le Perche,
Westfair Online,
Ma Ville,
Drakkar Online,
Ma Ville, and Super Chef articles
1 and
2. Colette herself wrote about the exchange for
Food Arts.
Ouest France reports on "
Association Windfall-Perche" (
more)
Ouest France interviews Colette in "
L'ecrivaine Colette Rossant projette d'exporter le Perche aux USA - Condeau" (
more)
Pays du Perche is running two articles by Colette in their latest issue (# 13): "Portrait Freddy Pommier, une etoile est nee" and "Developpement local Le safran du Roi" (
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Colette and family will hold a memorial service for her husband, James S. Rossant, on April 16, 2010, 4:00 - 6:00 PM, at the Ramaz School, 60 E. 78th Street, NYC. RSVP to trossant@polshek.com or (212) 792-5961
Radio France Inter interviews Colette Rossant about the new translations of her memoirs into French, published by
Editions les Deux Terres on December 31, 2009... (
more -- or
click here to listen [RealPlayer RAM format])
Livres Hebdo interviews Colette Rossant about the new translations of her memoirs into French, published by
Editions les Deux Terres in the November 20, 2009, issue (No. 798)... (
more [PDF file])
Editions les Deux Terres will be publishing French translations of Colette Rossant's books,
Memoires d'une Egypte Perdue and
Retour a Paris... (
more...)
International Business Times searches through Colette Rossant's
The World in My Kitchen (2006) to understand how and when great chefs came to detect fast food appeal... (
more...)
Colette delivered the first Cafe "Mai(s) Pourquoi" speech on President Obama's first 100 days in office at the Hotel de Ville in Nogent Le Rotrou on April 24, 2009 (
more...) (
PDF)
The UK's
Oxygen Books has added excerpts from Colette's
Return to Paris to a collection that includes
Proust,
Gertrude Stein,
Kate Mosse,
Irene Nemirovsky among nearly 80 extraordinary writers, introduced by
Stephen Clarke, bestselling author of
A Year in the Merde in its latest city travel companion... (
more...)
The UK's
Daily Mail reviews the paperback edition of Colette Rossant's third memoir
Madeleines in Manhattan on February 5, 2008. (
more...)
Bloombsury publishes paperback edition of Colette Rossant's third memoir
Madeleines in Manhattan on January 21, 2008. . (
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Food Arts features Colette Rossant's article "Europe: The Past Finds a Future" as the cover story of its October 2007 issue. (
more...)
Colette Rossant's article "The Last
Terroir" on the Perche region of France appears in
The New York Times Magazine on March 25, 2007, available online (
more...)
The World in My Kitchen is Colette's third and final food memoir, following Apricots on the Nile and Return to Paris (more...)
- "...mouthwatering reminiscence..." Kirkus
- "...vivid and opinionated..." Publishers Weekly (more...)