Egyptian Lentil Soup

Fogg’s journey continues on towards Port Said and the mouth of the Suez Canal aboard the steamship Mongolia. I imagine Fogg on a cold October day, with the coast of Egypt in sight, warming his hands with a steaming bowl of soup as he looks over to the minarets on the shore, which ‘loomed above the houses in the pale rays of the sun’. I was sitting aboard the ancient Thelginos, sailing a sunset sea to Mount Athos, when Andy (of