Saffron and Pearls by Doreen Hassan

Author:Doreen Hassan
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Published: 2017-03-21T04:00:00+00:00

Seafood

LIFE AT FAUST MANSION

This section of the book is especially dear to me because I have included several of my grandmother’s recipes. I have so many precious memories of the meals she made us, and our life at Faust Mansion. While writing this book, I spoke with my cousin, Marie Campos; we had a long conversation, along with her husband Eugene, and our daughters, Karen and Anisha. Reminiscing about my life at Faust Mansion took me back to my childhood.

Faust Mansion was my world, and my school, St Anne’s, was right across the street from home, as was the church we attended. My life was very simple and very regimented; we followed the same routine every day, waking up at 5.30 a.m. for church at 6 a.m., and it was lights out at 9 p.m. every night. (When I married Peter and moved into their home, I had to get used to a completely different routine – they sometimes ate breakfast at noon, and lunch at 5 p.m.! He still teases me about how much my life has changed.) My father had nine siblings, and Faust Mansion was where the family gathered during the summers and at Christmas. We had a large garden, full of trees, including mango, chikoo and jamun trees, which my cousins and I used to climb, much to our parents’ and grandparents’ concern. It was an old-fashioned house, with the kitchen outside of the main building and all our food was cooked over a slow fire for many years, before the kitchen was moved inside the house.

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