Winner of the 2026 James Beard Award for Reference, History, and Scholarship
Best Culinary History Book in the World, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2025
“Leaves few cultural-societal stones unturned in chronicling how the tomato gradually came to be a constant presence in Egyptian life.”—The Wall Street Journal
Best Culinary History Book in the World, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2025
“Leaves few cultural-societal stones unturned in chronicling how the tomato gradually came to be a constant presence in Egyptian life.”—The Wall Street Journal
A cultural and culinary history of modern Egypt through the nation's beloved tomato.
By the end of the twentieth century, the tomato—indigenous to the Americas—had become Egypt's top ...






















