Feature: How Did Hawaa’ Magazine Influence Egypt’s Cuisine?

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Salma Serry wanted to investigate the influence Hawwa' magazine had over the Egyptian Kitchen in the 20th century. She looks into what Egypt & Egyptian cuisine were like at that time, the magazine and its cookbooks, the readers, and the recipes & content.

Sources & Future References

• Menu of Suez Canal Inauguration Ball

• The Boundaries of Liberation and the Chains of Freedom: Urban Women in 1960s Egyptian Popular Cinema

• Gendering Religion and Politics : Untangling Modernities

• The Democratization of Well Being in Nasser’s Egypt - Jadaliyya

• Manuscript Recipe Books as Archaeological Objects : Text and Food in the Early Modern World

• The Making and Unmaking of European Cairo - Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies

• Working out Egypt : Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940

• Ryzova, Lucie. 2014. The Age of the Efendiyya

• The Enduring Charm of Café Groppi in Cairo - Newsweek

• Tignor, Robert L. 1966. Modernization and British Colonial Rule in Egypt, 1882-1914 
  

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