Colette Rossant





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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" ()



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])


Lives Hebdo

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 publishes Memoires d'une Egypte Perdue and Retour a Paris

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

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...)


Mai Pourquoi

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)


City-Lit Paris

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...)


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The UK's Daily Mail reviews the paperback edition of Colette Rossant's third memoir Madeleines in Manhattan on February 5, 2008. (more...)


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Bloombsury publishes paperback edition of Colette Rossant's third memoir Madeleines in Manhattan on January 21, 2008. . (more...)


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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...)


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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...)


caricature of Colette Rossant, by husband James Rossant THE WORLD IN MY KITCHEN (Atria)

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...)