Full Cairo Points

Tom Gara and I held another BBQ feast last night. Lamb kebabs, cheese- and hazelnut-stuffed beef rouladen, salt and pepper calamari, roast vegetable salad, stuffed tomatoes, spinach and artichoke dip (thanks, Megan), and to top the evening off: grilled strawberries.

Best part of the evening, though, had to be walking through downtown Cairo in galabayas, carrying a crate of BBQ meat (Tom on one side, me on the other) and one baladi (local) chicken feather fan. I'm pretty sure when the bystanders saw the latter, they thought, "Oh, so that's why those two foreigners are dressed in galabayas...they're about to do some serious BBQ'ing."

I'd also like to point out the brilliance of the chicken feather fan. It's an Egyptian invention that rivals papyrus. What used to take us hours (or the help of technology), fanning the coals, now takes minutes. With the amount of air one can displace, I can now see why birds can fly.