Welcome to Tableya
The blog where we delve deeper into the food of Egypt and some of the unique cultural aspects around it
The Breads of Egypt
The Breads of Egypt is the series that attempts to document and present the various types of bread found across Egypt. The aim is to provide reliable and accurate recipes that can be repeated by home bakers wherever they are in the world.
The Breads of Egypt: Eish Shamsi - عيش شمسي
Back in 2015, the BBC released a series called A Cook Abroad where you watch six cooks travel to six different countries and learn about the food. The first episode featured Dave Myers’ trip to Egypt. Aside from the regular tourist traps he’s shown falling for, the Lancashire-born Hairy Biker meets chef Moustafa Elrefaey in Cairo and visits a unique tomb across the Nile in Luxor where a type of bread is depicted as part of an offering to the gods. That is what we called eish shamsi (عيش شمسي).
