Colette Rossant

Colette Sol Rossant (née Palacci; 18 January 1932 – 12 October 2023) was a French-American cookbook author, journalist, translator, and restaurateur, who was a member of the Pallache family.

[3] After World War II, Rossant returned to Paris and lived with her grandmother and brother, joined occasionally by her mother.

[4] Moving to New York City| with her husband in 1955, Rossant pursued several careers, often simultaneously like teaching, writing, translating, restaurant business, and raising a family.

Dim Sum Go Go[7] (2000–2003) opened in Chinatown and featured original Imperial Cantonese cuisine, although Rossant had stopped consulting there.

Rossant traveled abroad (often with her husband, whose architectural design work took him to countries like Bhutan, Tanzania, and Turkey).

Rossant's last books were memoirs: Apricots on the Nile (2004, originally published as Memories of a Lost Egypt in 1999), Return to Paris (2003), and The World in My Kitchen (2006).

[9] She continued to contribute to Super Chef,[10] Food Arts,[11] and Pays du Perche magazines and was writing a twelfth book.

In November 2010, Rossant received the Prix Eugenie Brazier for the French translation of her first memoir, Mémoires d'une Egypte perdue (Editions Les Deux Terres 2010).