<![CDATA[In Egypt, Where Everything Can be Yogurt, Bread is Getting Too Expensive]]>

1.0 link 94352 <![CDATA[In Egypt, Where Everything Can be Yogurt, Bread is Getting Too Expensive]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/freddy-deknatel/in-egypt-where-everything_b_94352.html During a particularly bad week of heat and smog last summer in Cairo, I was in a cab in traffic, talking to the driver about the weather. He summed up the swelter memorably -- "Everything is yogurt" -- and the phrase has stuck. It's the first thing I hear when I think of Egypt, whether it's the heat or the many, mostly affable cabbies smoking cigarettes and flying through crazy traffic with a curious and sweaty foreigner riding shotgun.

It's not...

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