Nile-Side Egypt Town Heralds Spring with Pungent Delicacy

In this picture taken on April 11, 2023, a fish monger prepares to salt and barrel mullet fish known in Egypt as "feseekh" at a shop in the town of Nabarah, near Egypt's northern Nile Delta city of Mansoura, ahead of the traditional secular holiday of Sham el-Nessim (celebrated on Easter Monday). (AFP)

The overwhelming smell may be misleading, but the Egyptian town of Nabaruh, its streets lined with shops selling salty, fermented fish called feseekh, is far from the seaside.

Landlocked in the Nile Delta, "Nabaruh is the capital of feseekh," boasted 44-year-old Sherif al-Yamani, owner of one of the town's famed shops.