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3. My Stepfather

Food punctuates Colette’s recollections - with her first truffle and bonding with her stepfather. Read by Barbara Flynn.

The author recalls eating her first truffle, and bonding with her stepfather.

Colette Rossant, celebrated New York food writer and bestselling author of Apricots on the Nile, continues her memoirs in Return to Paris.

She mixes vibrant memories of her teenage years in France after the Second World War with mouth-watering descriptions of meals that changed her life.

Read by Barbara Flynn

Abridged by Penny Leicester

Producer: Gemma Jenkins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2003.

15 minutes

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