Posted by dorayme on 06/13/05 01:58

> From: Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl>

>> Fair enough. In Cairo, where I lived for a while, the national dish seemed
>> to me to be fool (beans) and tamia (felafel), judging by the number of shops
>> and what so many basic orders were. Magnificent food. Considering your
>> interest in tabouli, perhaps you will expand your recipe section, you can't
>> leave a whole country out. Will see about submitting these to your site...
>> Naturally I will check to see that all your css and html on the submission
>> form is kosher first...
>
> You /do/ know that Egypt and Israel are two different countries,
> right? ;-)
>

The Egyptian government itself uses the term "kosher" to recommend html and
css standards. All part of the peace deal after Sadat famously went over to
the Israeli parliament. It was deemed to promote understanding between the
two countries. For many years it so irritated the Egyptian bureaucracy that
they deliberately over-used tables and delighted in the center tag. Things
calmed down somewhat for a while but flared up again during the recent
Intifada in Palestine. This is the reason that while Egyptian food has
always been quite wonderful, their website activities have sometimes been
among the worst in the world.

dorayme

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