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Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato

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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

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 ...