By Seif El Mashad and Ahmed Khaled. Photographs courtesy of Noha Hamdy. All over the world, food has been celebrated by hosting festivals for the sole purpose of producing and serving food. Last Saturday, Egypt held its own version of food festival with the main theme of Koshary: an authentic Egyptian dish made of rice, lentils and macaroni served together with tomato sauce and thinly-cut fried onion rings. Engezni, a start-up social media food network and phone application that allow its users to discover new restaurants and foods, share and order food online, launched the first Koshary themed festival in Egypt at El Horyea Garden, Zamalek, to coincide with Engezni’s official launch. The aim of of the festival was to cook the biggest Koshary dish in collaboration with Cairo-famous Koshary store Abu Tarek and to break the Guinness World record. “We just we really wanted to put Engezni out there and what better way to do it than an enormous dish of Koshary?” -Karim Ahmed from Engezni At the gates, you could easily make out two kinds of people: those who were very excited, their taste-buds waiting to be pleased by…
