Anny Gaul
@annygaul.bsky.social
Author of Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato (2025) 🍅 Ceasefire + arms embargo now 🍉 Views my own 🍅 https://bio.site/annygaul
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Palestinian Foodways Bibliography
This bibliography collates the rich body of writing, research, and other forms of documented knowledge (scholarly and otherwise) produced about Palestinian foodways — broadly conceived to include agri...
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Introducing the Palestinian Foodways Bibliography: a collaborative effort to collate, document, and honor the myriad writing, research, and other forms of documented knowledge about Palestinian foodways.
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As tomatoes became a popular staple in Egypt’s home kitchens, their “crazy” prices became a fixture of Egyptian life. Read an excerpt of @annygaul.bsky.social’s new book, “Nile Nightshade,” here:
The Surprising History of Egypt’s ‘Crazy Tomatoes’
How an ordinary ingredient became a symbol of collective complaint.
foreignpolicy.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
As tomatoes became a popular staple in Egypt’s home kitchens, their “crazy” prices became a fixture of Egyptian life. Read an excerpt of @annygaul.bsky.social’s new book, “Nile Nightshade,” here:
Introducing the Palestinian Foodways Bibliography: a collaborative effort to collate, document, and honor the myriad writing, research, and other forms of documented knowledge about Palestinian foodways.
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46984
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46984
Palestinian Foodways Bibliography
This bibliography collates the rich body of writing, research, and other forms of documented knowledge (scholarly and otherwise) produced about Palestinian foodways — broadly conceived to include agri...
www.jadaliyya.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Introducing the Palestinian Foodways Bibliography: a collaborative effort to collate, document, and honor the myriad writing, research, and other forms of documented knowledge about Palestinian foodways.
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46984
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46984
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As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net.
In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
SNAP benefits feed essential needs while still leaving many hungry for more
Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net.
In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
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Thank you @wsj.com for the great review of NILE NIGHTSHADE: "Chronicl[es] how the tomato gradually came to be a constant presence in Egyptian life. . . . It would be hard to find another writer who brings Ms Gaul’s particular strengths." www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘Nile Nightshade’ Review: The Vine of the Valley
The tomato was not used in Egyptian cooking until the 19th century—today it is a staple of the cuisine.
www.wsj.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Thank you @wsj.com for the great review of NILE NIGHTSHADE: "Chronicl[es] how the tomato gradually came to be a constant presence in Egyptian life. . . . It would be hard to find another writer who brings Ms Gaul’s particular strengths." www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
It’s soup season and Nile Nightshade’s publication day is almost here! Read on for an Egyptian lentil soup recipe, a preview of the book’s content, and info about an incredible new art installation (featuring tomatoes, of course) by Yasmine El Meleegy.
cookingwithgaul.com/2025/09/21/t...
cookingwithgaul.com/2025/09/21/t...
Turn up the tomato: a lentil soup for cooler days
My book Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato is now available to preorder. For each book ordered and each library request reported here between now and the book’s publi…
cookingwithgaul.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It’s soup season and Nile Nightshade’s publication day is almost here! Read on for an Egyptian lentil soup recipe, a preview of the book’s content, and info about an incredible new art installation (featuring tomatoes, of course) by Yasmine El Meleegy.
cookingwithgaul.com/2025/09/21/t...
cookingwithgaul.com/2025/09/21/t...
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You made it halfway through the week *and* we still have free shipping? Sounds like the perfect time to treat yourself to a new book and support indie bookstores in the process. 📚
October 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
You made it halfway through the week *and* we still have free shipping? Sounds like the perfect time to treat yourself to a new book and support indie bookstores in the process. 📚
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Difficult to feel any joy in these times, but this beauty by @annygaul.bsky.social brought it. Coming October 28.
October 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Difficult to feel any joy in these times, but this beauty by @annygaul.bsky.social brought it. Coming October 28.
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This week,The BS rec’d a letter from MARIO GUEVARA, the only known journalist detained on US soil by ICE.
For wks, we’ve worked w/ his family to obtain Mario’s handwritten letter + the 2 drawings of his cell.
The letter is also available in Spanish. bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...
For wks, we’ve worked w/ his family to obtain Mario’s handwritten letter + the 2 drawings of his cell.
The letter is also available in Spanish. bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...
September 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This week,The BS rec’d a letter from MARIO GUEVARA, the only known journalist detained on US soil by ICE.
For wks, we’ve worked w/ his family to obtain Mario’s handwritten letter + the 2 drawings of his cell.
The letter is also available in Spanish. bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...
For wks, we’ve worked w/ his family to obtain Mario’s handwritten letter + the 2 drawings of his cell.
The letter is also available in Spanish. bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...
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U.S. Park Police officers are pursuing vehicles when D.C. police would not.
They have initiated at least 10 car chases in the past three weeks as part of President Trump’s surge in federal law enforcement in D.C., court records show.
They have initiated at least 10 car chases in the past three weeks as part of President Trump’s surge in federal law enforcement in D.C., court records show.
Ten car chases. Six crashes. Park Police have new rules in Trump’s D.C.
U.S. Park Police have initiated at least 10 car chases in the past three weeks as part of President Donald Trump’s D.C. surge, court records show.
wapo.st
August 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
U.S. Park Police officers are pursuing vehicles when D.C. police would not.
They have initiated at least 10 car chases in the past three weeks as part of President Trump’s surge in federal law enforcement in D.C., court records show.
They have initiated at least 10 car chases in the past three weeks as part of President Trump’s surge in federal law enforcement in D.C., court records show.
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interview w/founder of the press coming soon.
Also particularly excited to spread the word about a new Kurdish publishing house, Henar Press, henarpress.org, which also has this Kurdish Literary Database (henarpress.org/database) of Kurdish works in English translated from Sorani Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Kurmanji, German, Farsi, & more.
August 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
interview w/founder of the press coming soon.
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Introducing NILE NIGHTSHADE: AN EGYPTIAN CULINARY HISTORY OF THE TOMATO, coming this October from @ucpress.bsky.social. Read on for details about a preorder promotion I'm running to raise money for mutual aid, a zine giveaway, and a preview of the book. 🧵: (1/9)
August 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Introducing NILE NIGHTSHADE: AN EGYPTIAN CULINARY HISTORY OF THE TOMATO, coming this October from @ucpress.bsky.social. Read on for details about a preorder promotion I'm running to raise money for mutual aid, a zine giveaway, and a preview of the book. 🧵: (1/9)
Introducing NILE NIGHTSHADE: AN EGYPTIAN CULINARY HISTORY OF THE TOMATO, coming this October from @ucpress.bsky.social. Read on for details about a preorder promotion I'm running to raise money for mutual aid, a zine giveaway, and a preview of the book. 🧵: (1/9)
August 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Introducing NILE NIGHTSHADE: AN EGYPTIAN CULINARY HISTORY OF THE TOMATO, coming this October from @ucpress.bsky.social. Read on for details about a preorder promotion I'm running to raise money for mutual aid, a zine giveaway, and a preview of the book. 🧵: (1/9)
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Israel uprooted 10,000 olive trees in al-Mughayyir during a three-day siege of the West Bank Palestinian village. The Israeli army stated that uprooting the trees was intended to “deter” village residents and make them “pay a heavy price.” mondoweiss.net/2025/08/isra...
Israel wanted to punish a Palestinian village. So it destroyed 10,000 of its olive trees.
Israel uprooted 10,000 olive trees in al-Mughayyir during a three-day siege of the West Bank Palestinian village. The Israeli army stated that uprooting the trees was intended to “deter” village…
mondoweiss.net
August 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Israel uprooted 10,000 olive trees in al-Mughayyir during a three-day siege of the West Bank Palestinian village. The Israeli army stated that uprooting the trees was intended to “deter” village residents and make them “pay a heavy price.” mondoweiss.net/2025/08/isra...
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Reminder of the ten metro stations the National Guard is patrolling. They have also been spotted on foot patrol on streets around these stops, not just inside the station.
August 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reminder of the ten metro stations the National Guard is patrolling. They have also been spotted on foot patrol on streets around these stops, not just inside the station.
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Gaza Strip: 98.5% of cropland unavailable for cultivation as famine looms
Food production cannot be reactivated without a significant shift in accessibility, safety, investments and support for local communities and livelihoods
www.fao.org/newsroom/det...
Food production cannot be reactivated without a significant shift in accessibility, safety, investments and support for local communities and livelihoods
www.fao.org/newsroom/det...
Gaza Strip: 98.5 percent of cropland unavailable for cultivation as famine looms
Food production cannot be reactivated without a significant shift in accessibility, safety, investments and support for local communities and livelihoods
www.fao.org
August 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Gaza Strip: 98.5% of cropland unavailable for cultivation as famine looms
Food production cannot be reactivated without a significant shift in accessibility, safety, investments and support for local communities and livelihoods
www.fao.org/newsroom/det...
Food production cannot be reactivated without a significant shift in accessibility, safety, investments and support for local communities and livelihoods
www.fao.org/newsroom/det...
My latest post is all about weeka, a technique for cooking okra that is shared between Egyptian and Sudanese food cultures: cookingwithgaul.com/2025/07/27/w...
Weeka: Nile Valley Okra
Much of the history of the tomato in Egypt — the subject of Nile Nightshade, my forthcoming book — is oriented north and east. The tomato linked Turkey and Egypt through Ottoman cuisine’s embrace o…
cookingwithgaul.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
My latest post is all about weeka, a technique for cooking okra that is shared between Egyptian and Sudanese food cultures: cookingwithgaul.com/2025/07/27/w...
"[Israel] has been calibrating hunger in Gaza for decades...Between March and June, Israel allowed just 56,000 tonnes of food to enter the territory, Cogat records show, less than a quarter of Gaza’s minimum needs for that period."
It cannot be denied: this is a deliberate and coldly-calculated famine, engineered by a technologically-advanced state which knows exactly what it is doing.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"[Israel] has been calibrating hunger in Gaza for decades...Between March and June, Israel allowed just 56,000 tonnes of food to enter the territory, Cogat records show, less than a quarter of Gaza’s minimum needs for that period."
Big news from the nightshade world gizmodo.com/potatoes-evo... h/t @hek-yes.bsky.social
Potatoes Evolved From Tomatoes, Study Reveals
“Next time you eat potatoes, thank a tomato.
gizmodo.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Big news from the nightshade world gizmodo.com/potatoes-evo... h/t @hek-yes.bsky.social
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This is happening now in Beirut.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
#Israel’i air strikes just flattened these residential apartment blocks in #Beirut. You can hear shocked screams of people in the street below as the missiles hit & the buildings collapse in just seconds. This is the daily reality of life in #Lebanon’s capital now.
November 17, 2024 at 4:38 PM
This is happening now in Beirut.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
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There is a playbook.
October 17, 2023 at 11:19 PM
There is a playbook.
Folks in the US please speak up now: write, call and don't stop calling. It is literally the least we can do. (1/2)
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/urg...
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/urg...
URGENT: Stop genocide against Palestinians in Gaza (call now) - JVP
The U.S. must work to immediately de-escalate to prevent the further loss of life, and not fuel and exacerbate the violence by sending more weapons to Israel.
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
October 13, 2023 at 5:44 PM
Folks in the US please speak up now: write, call and don't stop calling. It is literally the least we can do. (1/2)
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/urg...
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/urg...
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From Bloomberg newsletter: Big oil "has long championed recycling as a way of perpetuating the use of plastic, which is made from petrochemicals. But even after billions of taxpayer dollars and four decades of public awareness campaigns, less than 10% of plastic waste is recycled in the US."
Plastics: Material-Specific Data | US EPA
This page describes the generation, recycling, combustion with energy recovery, and landfilling of plastic materials, and explains how EPA classifies such material.
link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com
August 17, 2023 at 12:50 PM
From Bloomberg newsletter: Big oil "has long championed recycling as a way of perpetuating the use of plastic, which is made from petrochemicals. But even after billions of taxpayer dollars and four decades of public awareness campaigns, less than 10% of plastic waste is recycled in the US."
Summer palette/flora & fauna
August 15, 2023 at 3:47 PM
Summer palette/flora & fauna
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I interviewed Anya Von Bremzen about the labor behind tortillas, and what it means to have a national dish built on subjugation https://www.eater.com/23823224/national-dish-book-tortilla-women-labor-anya-von-bremzen-interview
The Unacknowledged, Grueling Labor Behind the Mexican Tortilla
In her book "National Dish" Anya von Bremzen asks, "Is the tortilla empowerment or slavery?"
www.eater.com
August 8, 2023 at 3:07 PM
I interviewed Anya Von Bremzen about the labor behind tortillas, and what it means to have a national dish built on subjugation https://www.eater.com/23823224/national-dish-book-tortilla-women-labor-anya-von-bremzen-interview