5 dishes that prove Egyptian food is way underrated


It was my first full day in Cairo and, as someone who travels mostly for the experience of aiming new forkfuls of food toward my mouth, this was not the dinner conversation I’d hoped for. (My guidebook was equally ambivalent, and its author seemed to eventually give up on finding synonyms for the word ‘bland’). Despite that underwhelming introduction, I was pleasantly surprised by the meals I had – and the ones I repeated – during a recent 10-day trip through the country.Read More

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