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widowed, decides to return to Paris and
rejoin the social scene. She parks 15-year-
old Colette with her strict, haughty
grandmother, whose tirades soon drive
the teenager to the kitchen, where
Georgette, the family cook, offers sympa-
thy and comfort food: baguettes spread
with butter and jam and cafe au fait.
If cooking is an aptitude, clearly
Rossant was imbued. From her first
meal in France, an omelette aux fines
herbes, followed by raspberries laced with
creme fraiche, she revels in the cuisine.
She combines anecdotes about her
troubled times in school and with her
aristocratic, semi-impoverished family
with detailed descriptions of Paris
cafes and bistros.
She shares her rapidly growing appre-
ciation of French cuisine. Her recipes are
light years away from Bubble's: Consider
Mousse de Foie Avec Compote d'Onions
("Liver Mousse with Onion Jam").
But there is considerable appeal in
'Alice's Raspberry Tart," and the "Chicken
Vedova" works for Shabbat dinner.
Rossant will try anything. During
various travels in the French country-
side with her bon vivant uncle and her
hotelier stepfather, she samples rooster
sausage cooked in red wine, braised
rabbit and pigeon stuffed with pork.
Still, the recipes are postscripts corn-
pared with Rossant's life.
The war takes its toll on the family's
wealth; so does the post-war upheaval
in Egypt that uproots King Farouk.
Aunts and uncles in both Paris and
Cairo seek eligible Jewish suitors, hop-
ing for a fortuitous marriage.
Rossant has other plans and strikes
out independently, still struggling with
her identity: "I was no longer a
Catholic, nor was I a Jew." Eventually
she falls in love with an American, a
Harvard-educated, Jewish architect.
The couple move to New York, where
Rossant is aghast at American cuisine.
White bread! Orange Jello! Mon Dieu!
This story ends with the birth of
Rossant's first child and her mother's
arrival from Paris. She brings lavish baby
gifts, duplicating the infant trousseau
ordered by Princess Grace of Monaco.
Rossant concludes that even if she did
not have the ideal mother, her daughter
would have "a great grandmother.
The author alludes to the years that
follow in various asides. Inevitably, a
third memoir must follow.
We need to know how Rossant
became an award-winning food writer
and author of eight cookbooks,
including New Kosher Cooking sur-
vived breast cancer; and learned how
to cook without cream.
— Edith Broida
CHARLOTTE AND LIONEL:
A ROTHSCHILD LOVE STORY
By Stanley Weintraub
(The Free Press; 306 pp.; $27.50)
nyone who is a
history buff
and also
appreciates a good
romantic novel will
'CHARLOTTE
enjoy reading
LION E L
Charlotte and Lionel:
A Rothschild Love
Story, by noted historian and biogra-
pher Stanley Weintraub.
Using a variety of reference materi-
als, with the Rothschild Archive serv-
ing as his primary source, Weintraub
paints a detailed picture of the influ-
ential couple amidst the glamorous
setting of Victorian England.
Through narrative, letters and
excerpts from various diaries,
Weintraub focuses on the relationship
between Charlotte and Lionel, first
cousins whose arranged marriage took
place when Charlotte was 17 and
Lionel was 27. Although they were
brought together for reasons of social
status and finance, their marriage
became one not of convenience but of
true love and great devotion.
Despite their enormous wealth, they
understood the value of those things
which money cannot buy.
Weintraub's book is rich with details
not only about the Rothschilds but
about the many other prominent people
with whom they were involved, includ-
ing author and future prime minister
Benjamin Disraeli, novelist W.M.
Thackeray, showman P.T. Barnum and
Prince Albert, who according to the
author, was a confidential borrower
from the Rothschilds' bank.
The book is structured chronologi-
cally, starting in the early 1800s, with
events leading up to Charlotte and
Lionel's marriage in 1836, and ending
with Charlotte's death in 1884, three
months before what would have been
her 65th birthday and five years after
the passing of her beloved Lionel.
To help the reader keep track of the
extremely complex family tree,
Weintraub includes a detailed chart
depicting the descendants of Mayer
Amschel Rothschild and his wife,
Gutle (Schnapper), who gave birth to
Lionel's father, Nathan (Hannah)
Mayer Rothschild and Charlotte's
father, Carl Mayer von Rothschild
(Adelheid).
There is a wealth of information
about the history and politics of the
time, such as the chapter titled "The
Jew Bill," which chronicles the passing
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