Food writer Nermine Mansour shares a festive meaty main course as a contrast to her vegan angel bread earlier. She explains that beef fattah typically appears twice in the Coptic calendar: Christmas Day on January 7th and Easter weekend. In her home, the fattah is made without the customary tomato sauce, a common treatment in Coptic homes. Her theory is that since most of Egypt’s Copts are originally from the Nile Valley - an old and traditional region - they
