It’s been almost a year since The Idiot hosted a dinner inside a restaurant (“A place where people pay to not social distance and eat someone else’s food”) and to recall the variety of food available on earth during the isolating pandemic he tends to think of the cuisine in the countries he visited during his 20-year-walk around the Mediterranean Sea.
Here is some of the daily fare he encountered in Egypt that is described and seen in The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Twenty Years Walking the Mediterranean.
A bakery breakfast in Cairo.
A bakery breakfast in Siwa.
A breakfast main course being prepared in Siwa.
A garden breakfast spot in Siwa.
A morning coffee in Luxor.
A morning dose of sugar cane juice in Siwa.
Fruit and vegetables for a picnic lunch in Ras El Bar.
Shrimp to cook for lunch in Ras El Bar.
Buying fruit in Luxor.
Buying a fruit salad at Carrefour in Borg Al-Arab for less than fifty cents.
Choosing a table for lunch in Alexandria.
Having lunch in Cairo.
Finding a spot for seaside tea in Alexandria.
Having water at Queen Hatshepsut’s Temple.
Selecting fish for dinner in Alexandria.
Having a dinner salad in El Alamein.
Having dinner alone in Rashid, erstwhile home of the Rosetta Stone.
Buying fish in the market for dinner in Ras el Bar.
Avoiding a butcher shop in Cairo.
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