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
I hope the bibliography will serve as a resource to students, journalists, educators, scholars, and anyone else with an interest in understanding and advocating for Palestine through food.
November 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I hope the bibliography will serve as a resource to students, journalists, educators, scholars, and anyone else with an interest in understanding and advocating for Palestine through food.
The list includes scholarship alongside cookbooks and works of art, film, and memoir. Assembled in the face of genocide, famine, attacks on olive trees and seed banks, the works on the list attest to Palestinian steadfastness & rootedness in the land.
November 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The list includes scholarship alongside cookbooks and works of art, film, and memoir. Assembled in the face of genocide, famine, attacks on olive trees and seed banks, the works on the list attest to Palestinian steadfastness & rootedness in the land.
For every preorder reported in the form linked here between now and the publication date (10/28), I’ll donate $2 each to the Sudan Solidarity Fund and the Gaza Soup Kitchen.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
For every preorder reported in the form linked here between now and the publication date (10/28), I’ll donate $2 each to the Sudan Solidarity Fund and the Gaza Soup Kitchen.
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Ch. 5: How did the practice of cooking vegetables in tomato sauce become so widespread in Egypt?
Intergenerational culinary education, perennial irrigation, a local food processing industry, the tomato's unique flavor compounds, a versatile cooking technique, and more! (8/9)
Intergenerational culinary education, perennial irrigation, a local food processing industry, the tomato's unique flavor compounds, a versatile cooking technique, and more! (8/9)
August 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Ch. 5: How did the practice of cooking vegetables in tomato sauce become so widespread in Egypt?
Intergenerational culinary education, perennial irrigation, a local food processing industry, the tomato's unique flavor compounds, a versatile cooking technique, and more! (8/9)
Intergenerational culinary education, perennial irrigation, a local food processing industry, the tomato's unique flavor compounds, a versatile cooking technique, and more! (8/9)
Ch. 4: What did Huda Shaʿrawi have to do with Egyptian cookbooks?
So much that it won't fit in a single post; you'll have to read the chapter to find out! Don't worry there are tomatoes involved (Image: Shaʿrawi's portrait on the dedication page of a cookbook by Basima Zaki Ibrahim, ca. 1940) (7/9)
So much that it won't fit in a single post; you'll have to read the chapter to find out! Don't worry there are tomatoes involved (Image: Shaʿrawi's portrait on the dedication page of a cookbook by Basima Zaki Ibrahim, ca. 1940) (7/9)
August 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Ch. 4: What did Huda Shaʿrawi have to do with Egyptian cookbooks?
So much that it won't fit in a single post; you'll have to read the chapter to find out! Don't worry there are tomatoes involved (Image: Shaʿrawi's portrait on the dedication page of a cookbook by Basima Zaki Ibrahim, ca. 1940) (7/9)
So much that it won't fit in a single post; you'll have to read the chapter to find out! Don't worry there are tomatoes involved (Image: Shaʿrawi's portrait on the dedication page of a cookbook by Basima Zaki Ibrahim, ca. 1940) (7/9)
Ch. 3: Why are Egyptian tomato prices so volatile?
Egyptian tomato production in the 20th century was a perfect storm: delicate fruits, hands-off production & pricing policies, and racketeering merchants. No wonder the street cry vendors use to sell them is MAGNUNA YA QUTA (crazy tomatoes)... (6/9)
Egyptian tomato production in the 20th century was a perfect storm: delicate fruits, hands-off production & pricing policies, and racketeering merchants. No wonder the street cry vendors use to sell them is MAGNUNA YA QUTA (crazy tomatoes)... (6/9)
August 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Ch. 3: Why are Egyptian tomato prices so volatile?
Egyptian tomato production in the 20th century was a perfect storm: delicate fruits, hands-off production & pricing policies, and racketeering merchants. No wonder the street cry vendors use to sell them is MAGNUNA YA QUTA (crazy tomatoes)... (6/9)
Egyptian tomato production in the 20th century was a perfect storm: delicate fruits, hands-off production & pricing policies, and racketeering merchants. No wonder the street cry vendors use to sell them is MAGNUNA YA QUTA (crazy tomatoes)... (6/9)
Ch. 2: Why do Egyptians call tomatoes “quta”?
It’s an older word that referred to another red nightshade, Solanum aethiopicum, first. Early print cookbooks, agricultural manuals, and everyday speech help explain how & why the word came to mean “tomatoes” instead. (5/9)
It’s an older word that referred to another red nightshade, Solanum aethiopicum, first. Early print cookbooks, agricultural manuals, and everyday speech help explain how & why the word came to mean “tomatoes” instead. (5/9)
August 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Ch. 2: Why do Egyptians call tomatoes “quta”?
It’s an older word that referred to another red nightshade, Solanum aethiopicum, first. Early print cookbooks, agricultural manuals, and everyday speech help explain how & why the word came to mean “tomatoes” instead. (5/9)
It’s an older word that referred to another red nightshade, Solanum aethiopicum, first. Early print cookbooks, agricultural manuals, and everyday speech help explain how & why the word came to mean “tomatoes” instead. (5/9)
Ch. 1: How did the tomato get to Egypt?
Fragmentary evidence suggests that the tomato might have traveled from Mexico to Egypt via the Mediterranean AND the Red Seas; the trajectories of shakshuka and koshari offer some clues. (4/9)
Fragmentary evidence suggests that the tomato might have traveled from Mexico to Egypt via the Mediterranean AND the Red Seas; the trajectories of shakshuka and koshari offer some clues. (4/9)
August 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Ch. 1: How did the tomato get to Egypt?
Fragmentary evidence suggests that the tomato might have traveled from Mexico to Egypt via the Mediterranean AND the Red Seas; the trajectories of shakshuka and koshari offer some clues. (4/9)
Fragmentary evidence suggests that the tomato might have traveled from Mexico to Egypt via the Mediterranean AND the Red Seas; the trajectories of shakshuka and koshari offer some clues. (4/9)
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)
Summer palette/flora & fauna
August 15, 2023 at 3:47 PM
Summer palette/flora & fauna