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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 A