16 Facts About Colette Rossant

Colette Sol Rossant was a French-American cookbook author, journalist, translator, and restaurateur, who was a member of the Pallache family.

Colette Rossant traveled with her mother to Cairo to live with her father and her father's family during World War II.

Colette Rossant's mother spent much of the war in Beirut, while her brother Eddy Palacci remained in Paris with their mother's parents.

Colette Rossant spent a year learning English at Roedean School near Brighton, UK.

Colette Rossant was first a language instructor at the Browning School.

Colette Rossant became head of the French department at St Anne's School.

Colette Rossant published her first of seven cookbooks in 1975.

Colette Rossant became "underground gourmet" for New York Magazine in the 1980s.

Colette Rossant served as food and design editor for McCalls Magazine.

Dim Sum Go Go opened in Chinatown and featured original Imperial Cantonese cuisine, although Colette Rossant had stopped consulting there.

In 2002, Colette Rossant moved from New York back to France, but rather than return to Paris again, she went to live in the department of Orne, two hours west of Paris.

Colette Rossant continued to live in their home near Condeau, France, on whose town council she has served.

Colette Rossant continued to contribute to Super Chef, Food Arts, and Pays du Perche magazines and was writing a twelfth book.

In November 2010, Colette Rossant received the Prix Eugenie Brazier for the French translation of her first memoir, Memoires d'une Egypte perdue.

Colette Rossant appeared during an interview in Rebekah Wingert-Jabi's 2015 documentary Another Way of Living: The Story of Reston, VA, along with an excerpt of an interview with Colette Rossant's by then deceased husband, James.

Colette Rossant died from breast cancer on 12 October 2023, at the age of 91.