Egyptian food
Racist Incident at Portland Food Truck Leads to Backlash for Unrelated Food Cart
The people of Portland keep mistaking Gharib Muhammad for another man who used a racial slur and threw a bottle of Gatorade at a customer.
Delivering Bread in Cairo Is a Balance of Life and Death
The handmade bread known as aish baladi is Egyptian staple. In Cairo, its ubiquity is made possible by the network of agalati—bread carriers—who risk their safety to deliver bread to restaurants, ful carts, and street stands.
The Cairo Chef Who Helped Feed a Revolution
In a tiny alley in downtown Cairo sits Fas'hat Somaya, a small restaurant that's open a mere three hours a day. You'd never guess that its chef honed her skills by cooking for protesters on the front lines of the Egyptian Revolution.
Cairo's Streets Become Charity Restaurants During Ramadan
During the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset. Egyptians across the country offer free iftar meals to the underprivileged, and everyone else who wishes to join, in the form of discordant clusters of dinner...
The Irreparable Loss of Cairo's Street Café District
In the last four years, the Cairo café district known as el-Borsa has been raided by the police for its role in fostering a revolution, as well as its reputation for attracting drug dealers, sex workers, and gay men. In March, it was shut down for good.
Cairo's Koshary Festival Was a Reckless Display of Carbs
In an upscale neighborhood of Cairo, 50 chefs gathered to cook the world's largest dish of koshary—a cheap and carb-filled dish of rice, lentils, chickpeas, and pasta.
Inside the 1,000-Year-Old Gardens of Egypt
In a remote part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, ancient gardens once tended by Bedouin tribes have fallen into disrepair. But after the 2011 revolution tanked the tourist economy, the tribesmen here have begun to return, providing a glimpse of a more...
Shopping for Camel Meat Outside Cairo
When I visited the camel market in Birqash recently, I could hear sticks as they whipped through the air and cracked on strained, burdened flesh.