My Egypt
In 2022 and 2023, I worked with Michael Mina and his team (especially chef Adam Sobel), to craft a book about one of America’s most celebrated chefs going back to where he was born: Cairo, Egypt.
In 2022, we traveled from Cairo to Alexandria with Moustafa Elrefaey, one of the most knowledgable chefs I’ve met. He was also generous, showing us parts of Egypt that would be hard to access otherwise. The book covers those moments, from a pit roast on the outskirts of Cairo to the fish markets set along the Mediterranean. John Lee, the photographer I worked with on Lavash and Burma Superstar, captured modern-day Egypt in a fresh way. The book comes out October 8, 2024, with Voracious, an imprint of Little, Brown.