Nile Nightshade

"I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It adds a fresh and original dimension to the study of modern Egypt."--Marilyn Booth, author of The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-Siècle Egypt

"Nile Nightshade provides a master class in food history by deftly and accessibly navigating a complex political, culinary, and linguistic story through a now-common vegetable. By prioritizing the kitchen, Anny Gaul produces a new way of thinking about the building of national cuisines that traverses borders both imposed and imaginative."--Alicia Kennedy, author of No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

"Gaul's amazingly documented, engagingly erudite, and insightful story of how Egyptians made the tomato their own is a fascinating way to learn about Egypt: its history, agriculture, culinary culture, and people."--Claudia Roden, author of Claudia Roden's Mediterranean and The New Book of Middle Eastern Food

Anny Gaul is Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and coeditor of Making Levantine Cuisine: Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean. She also runs the popular food blog Cooking with Gaul.