Bite Me Cairo: Gifted Chefs
David Blanks served on the judges’ panel of the second chef competition in Cairo
Latest in Tag: food column Highlight
Latest in Tag: food column
Bite Me Cairo: Master Chef Egypt
If your friends and family keep telling you that you ought to open your own restaurant, here is a chance to test your mettle.
Bite Me Cairo: Good days, bad days
More often than not comment cards are read carefully and you help the business and the dining community when you provide an honest, balanced appraisal.
Bite Me Cairo: Donburi
In Japan donburi means bowl or rice bowl dish and in Cairo Donburi is a new Japanese restaurant at City Stars. The creation of Japanophile Mido Barsoum, it brings authentic Japanese street food to Egypt for the first time.
Bite Me Cairo: Nature vs. Nurture
This common wisdom has been repeated so often in the press that it has become a mantra among those in the slow food movement and also among many rank-and-file foodies, who have in common that they swallow these myths without asking the necessary questions.
Bite Me Cairo: Trio (Part 2) – The Food
The meat is ground fresh on the premises daily and blended with caramelized balsamic onion, roasted garlic and egg yolk. Perfection on a soft, buttery bun. Topped with homemade pickles, fresh tomatoes and lettuce, Hernandez’s aioli of sweet and sour dill with chilies, black pepper and pickle juice put this one over the top.
Bite Me Cairo: Trio (Part I) – The Chef
If you’ve seen the film Food, Inc. (2008)—and if you haven’t, you should—you’ll know that industrial farming is ruining the food chain. The health and welfare of the planet, unchecked by government regulations, is being held hostage to corporate greed. It’s up to us to stop it. Not through petitions or demonstrations, rather, we should …
Bite Me Cairo: Four Thumbs Up
My youngest was born a foodist, a trait she happily developed in gleeful opposition to her food-averse sister as she instinctively sought out an unoccupied niche in the family culture.
Bite Me Cairo: A Tuk Tuk to Jaisalmer
Food for thought. Never imagined I’d employ that cliché, but in this case it fits. Let’s eat, drink and be merry for the betterment of the world. I like it. Restaurants are cultural places anyway—art, music, food, fashion, and politics. Why not take it the extra kilometer and entertain ourselves for the forces of good?
Bite Me Cairo: The Shock of the New
One thing America has going for it is supermarkets. For a Cairene, it’s like walking into a museum. The superabundance of everything you couldn’t possible need is unnerving.
Bite Me Cairo: Big Bang Theory
The event appeared in cyber space out of nothingness, a pop up Chef’s Table that materialized last Sunday at the Cellar Door in Maadi.
Bite Me Cairo: I Married A Foodist (Or “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off”)
Shib shib were thrown, holes were punched in walls, neighbors called the cops, and her royal self – for reasons that to this day remain a mystery to me – felt that I was making too big of a deal out of it.