Giving the Town a Taste of the World

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Radwa Matar, 23, turns cabbage, onion, rice, ground beef and other familiar ingredients into delicious Egyptian dishes with names that are unfamiliar to many of her First Friday customers.

But still they come, climbing a narrow staircase to the third- floor Community Room at 17 N. Prince St., where Matar dishes out mahshi (stuffed cabbage), kofta (meat balls), koshari (pasta, chickpeas, lentils) and other comfort foods of Cairo.

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Giving the Town a Taste of the World

Near Matar's stand, three other women also serve up Styrofoam plates heaped with savory foods from their native lands of Iraq, Morocco and Syria.

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