several pastries on a blue and white platter, with meat in the middle

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Egyptian Hawawshi

“Hawawshi? What the heck is that?” a friend once asked. Now, I don’t blame her. The name sounds like some kind of dance move, or the name of a strange character from television. As one article put it: “ is a cross between a hamburger, a Mexican gordita and a South American empanada.” In Egypt, they are

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