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Egyptian cooking; legumes, bread, rice, vegetables and Nile and Mediterranean fish.
"Aish" means life. The bread subsidy is the most politically consequential food policy in the country.
โ CONTINUITY OF INGREDIENTS IS NOT CONTINUITY OF CUISINE. Emmer, barley, onion, date and salted fish are evidenced in antiquity; no modern dish is called ancient on that basis, and koshary demonstrably cannot be.
A port brings Egyptian, Hejazi and Yemeni cooking with it.
โ Over two hundred fasting days a year is why Egypt has so developed a plant kitchen โ a documented cuisine, not a set of substitutions.
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