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Category: Cairo

October 21, 2019October 21, 2019

translating hummus

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September 29, 2018

salted lemon hummus, for tastes medieval and modern

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June 3, 2018July 5, 2019

(ideology never cooked) a duck

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egyptian risotto

December 31, 2016January 2, 2017

egyptian risotto

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September 14, 2016

pause-café

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February 24, 2016February 25, 2016

Sharkasiyya: Circassian Chicken with Walnut Sauce

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ligurian vegetable tart (& muʿajanat genealogies)

April 2, 2015November 16, 2017

ligurian vegetable tart (& muʿajanat genealogies)

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cairo rose-beef

December 19, 2014November 16, 2017

cairo rose-beef

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run the world chicken (from valuable treasures for a feast of pleasures)

October 17, 2014January 9, 2015

run the world chicken (from valuable treasures for a feast of pleasures)

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I study culinary history and literature in North Africa and the Arabic speaking world; this blog is a record of what happens when I put my research and passions into play at my own stove. I translate flavors & dishes from across the Middle East and North Africa into accessible recipes for the home cook––with a few large dashes of historical & cultural commentary.

While most of the recipes featured here hail from the Middle East & North Africa or elsewhere in the Mediterranean, I also love to cook anything that happens to be in season. A recipe index lists all recipes alphabetically; you can also browse by category or search for keywords below.

For less cooking and more history & literature, check out my research blog. You can read more about my work and other writing here.

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Gramming with Gaul

Slow bread, fast soup. Sourdough loaf + red lentil-coconut-cilantro soup.

Typing on an old school Underwood is exhausting and unforgiving compared to the smooth clicks and taps of the modern laptop. Rewriting ethnographic notes about the monumental Riad Belghazi (pictured here) into the introduction to the next section of this chapter on #bastilla was hard, but typing it here forced me to choose my words carefully, be concise, and focus on the (literal) mechanics rather than get wrapped up in the overload of sensory details I was trying to condense and convey. #acwriting #amwriting #fes #riad #writing #writingtipsandtricks #writingtips✏️

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