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Authentic Egyptian Cooking: From the Table of Abou El Sid Paperback – March 2, 2021

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Classic Egyptian favorites from one of Cairo’s leading restaurants, in a new soft cover edition

Traditionally, Egyptian cooking has been best practiced and enjoyed at home, where generations of unrecorded family recipes have been the sustaining repertoire for daily meals as well as sumptuous holiday feasts. Abou El Sid, one of Cairo’s most famous restaurants, here presents more than fifty of its most classic recipes in a cookbook for the enjoyment of home cooks all over the world.

Egyptians will recognize their favorites, from holiday dishes such as Fettah to the arrays of appetizers like aubergine with garlic, special lentils, and tahina; those new to Middle Eastern food will find the recipes simple and simply delicious, and enjoy the Egyptian table even if they don’t have the heritage of the pharaohs in their family backgrounds.

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The American University in Cairo Press
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March 2, 2021
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7.5 x 0.5 x 9.5 inches
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9776790046
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978-9776790049
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Nehal Leheta is an interior designer in Cairo with a strong interest in cuisine. She has designed a number of restaurant interiors in Egypt, and is a co-founder of Design Point, an interior and architecture design and consulting firm.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The American University in Cairo Press; Reissue edition (March 2, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9776790046
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9776790049
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.5 x 9.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #465,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #99 in African Cooking, Food & Wine
- #168 in Middle Eastern Cooking, Food & Wine
- #365 in Mediterranean Cooking, Food & Wine

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HR

Really interesting

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 15, 2023

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I don’t know if these recipes work, at least one has ingredients that are so grossly out of proportion as to render the dish inedible. But the descriptions and photos seem to touch on an authentic food experience far beyond the “hummus/falafel/baba ganouch” that people think of as Arabic food. I enjoyed reading it and plan to adapt a couple of the recipes.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 14, 2019

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Some of the recipes aren’t super detailed as far as steps to make them but overall a good beginning reference for traditional Egyptian food, if you are a good cook you will get the basics

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Authentic Egyptian Cooking (Arabic edition)

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 14, 2017

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I do not read Arabic, but the friend I gave the book to considered it excellent.
Regards.
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Ariel Amoroso

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 21, 2017

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Perfect

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 8, 2018

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It’s ok

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Ahmed Hussein

confusing photos

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 31, 2014

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Some photos do not match the description of the recipe

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Junior

Either a terrible cookbook, or Egyptian food is terrible. I'm going with the former.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 23, 2015

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Honestly, this was one of the worst cookbooks I've ever used. I'm a fairly accomplished home cook. But these recipes were mind-boggling to read. Ingredient measurements were incredibly vague. The actual cooking instructions seemed to skip steps, and I was often forced to guess and fill in the gap. I have to wonder if this was a case of either this being a cookbook that completely relies on you already being an expert in Egyptian cuisine and leaving you a peak at how this famous Cairo restaurant prepares their dishes, or if it is purposely obtuse so that you will never be able to achieve the quality of this famous Cairo restaurant.

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aly wally

Great book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 26, 2013

Got this book a week ago. The book covers the most famous Egyptian dishes prepared by Aboul Sid restaurant probably the best Egyptian restaurant in Cairo providing delicious Egyptian dishes in a local atmosphere for Egyptians, foreigners living in Egypt and foreigners travelling there. The book describes the famous Egyptian dishes in a very easy way to understand and with vivid pictures.
What could have been done better is to add the number of units produced in each meal to make it easy for the cook to know the number of final product (e.g. number of vine leaves, kobeba...etc) and also to get to know an average calorie count for each meal.
But overall, the book gives great insights into the richness of the Egyptian dishes.
My recommendation: buy the book and try Aboul Sid. You will never regret both.

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JAC

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 5, 2018

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Not used the recipes yet but look amazing and easy to do

Taqui Quinta

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 23, 2018

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Great resource for proper Egyptian recipes.. my Egyptian husband loves the.dishes I prepare... Love.the book!

samuel

La magia del Cairo en tu mesa

Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on February 3, 2022

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Una joya de libro, se nota que lo han escrito y diseñado con mucho cariño. He comido en el Abou el said del Cairo en Zamalek, y puedo asegurar que al menos las 3 recetas que cocinado saben exactamente igual a los platos allí servidos. Eso sí, recomiendo hacerse con un juego de cucharas medidoras de cocina.

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Very precise

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 4, 2022

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Alhamdhulillah now I can cook my favorite dishes from Egypt

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delicious food, great cook book

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on March 23, 2014

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Fantastic recipes from Abu-el-Sid Restaurant Cairo (just no bechameli-fel-forn included). The Book even describes the "tshhhh" sound (coming up when you put some water in a hot pan), which is important to authentic egyptian cooks. :) I like it very much. The pictures are very pretty!

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