Food

English philosopher Francis Bacon once said, “Age appears to be best in four things: Old wood best to burn, old…

“Fuul (Fava beans) is the meat of Egyptian people,” a taxi driver told me when I asked to stop at…

For those predicting the urban renewal of Cairo--the postponement of the city’s wild plans for suburbanization and a re-investment in…

For Caireans, the northern coast of Egypt has become all about "sahel"--the area between Alexandria and Ras al-Hekma--full of housing…

The Taj Al-Sultan restaurant in Al-Azhar square at the entrance to the Khan al-Khalili is an excellent restaurant. But great…

There is something about Thai food that manages to mesmerize me every time I taste it, but I’m not quite…

This is a recipe Italians usually cook for their fiances or wives on Valentine’s day, which serves equally well as…

Perfectly round, perfectly scrumptious, kahk--traditional Egyptian cookies--are the perfect ending to the holy month of Ramadan, and the perfect start…

Mouth-watering oriental cookies widely know as kahk make up an essential component of the Muslim Eid el-Fitr, the feast after…

This pasta salad is both refreshing and relatively easy to make. Top it with equal parts oil, vinegar, and lemon,…