{"id":605469,"date":"2023-08-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/08\/31\/my-morning-routine-mahmoud-antaki-founder-of-ministry-of-meat\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T00:00:00","slug":"my-morning-routine-mahmoud-antaki-founder-of-ministry-of-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/08\/31\/my-morning-routine-mahmoud-antaki-founder-of-ministry-of-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"My Morning Routine: Mahmoud Antaki, founder of Ministry of Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mahmoud Antaki, founder and head chef at Ministry of Meat<\/strong>: Each week, My Morning Routine looks at how a successful member of the community starts their day \u2014 and then throws in a couple of random business questions just for fun. Speaking to us this week is Mahmoud Antaki, the founder and head chef at Ministry of Meat<\/a>, which makes the best beef bacon we\u2019ve had anywhere.<\/p>\n

My name is Mahmoud Antaki, and I'm the founder and head chef at Ministry of Meat. <\/strong> At the age of 18, I left Egypt and moved to Miami to pursue a degree in strategic management. Because I couldn't work on a student visa, I had to get an under-the-table type job at a restaurant. I started out as a server, but I quickly realized that I loved the energy in the kitchen \u2014 what we call the back of the house \u2014 way more than the front of the house. The back of the house was a combination of big dudes, ex-cons, and really good cooks. Lots of cursing, too. So I was like, \u201cSign me up here! What\u2019ve I gotta do?\u201d <\/p>\n

I went to culinary school in California after eight years in Miami. <\/strong> I was doing pretty well and one of the chefs sent me to a Michelin-starred restaurant to get a stage \u2014 an internship for chefs. I worked with an incredible chef called Raphael Lunetta, a French-American surfer who taught me pretty much everything I know. <\/p>\n

I lived and cooked in Peru and Argentina for a few years. <\/strong>In 2011, I headed off to Peru and spent two years playing the flute, meditating, and learning the cuisine. But it was in Buenos Aires that I really understood why Argentina is the barbecue capital of the world, not Texas. In Argentina, I got to understand what meat is and it totally changed my perspective on what barbecuing is. I also learned that it\u2019s best to cook from what you can find in your backyard. Why would I cook saumon fum\u00e9 in Egypt, for example? Why not go to the Nile River, catch me a couple of tilapias and make something with that? So that\u2019s what I did when I moved to Aswan.<\/p>\n

I returned to Egypt when I was 37. <\/strong> Before settling in Cairo, I spent two years on a small island called Heissa in Aswan and opened a small restaurant. But I was faced with a challenge: How do you come to a land that's not yours, surrounded by poor Nubian people, and just start making money like that? It seemed inappropriate. So I started thinking about how I could involve and benefit the community. I asked the families around me to make certain items on the menu. The women would cook and send the food down to the restaurant, and I would pay for it. And because guests could only come to the restaurant by boat, the fishermen were involved too. I made some ceviche from the native tilapia that drove people crazy. I had all sorts of people coming in \u2014 actors, writers, gurus, and even Dr. Magdi Yacoub.<\/p>\n

I was mind-boggled by why Cairo doesn\u2019t have decent sausages or hot dogs, like the <\/strong> Bratwurst that you get in Zurich \u2014 those nice, juicy, popping sausages. <\/strong>So when the pandemic hit, my wife and I created Ministry of Meat. I bought cooking equipment and started smoking sausages on my roof and my wife did the social media and organized deliveries. We started delivering to our neighbors, then to expats in Maadi, and now to everyone with our new central kitchen. One day, I\u2019d love to open a factory for mass production so that we can export our meats to the world.<\/p>\n

Ministry of Meat does things a little differently: <\/strong>Our business addresses the scarcity of clean meat. Our meat doesn\u2019t have fillers, soybean, or gluten. It's not manufactured food. It's 100% pure meat.<\/p>\n

Striking a good work\u2013life balance was hard at the beginning because I'm not your <\/strong> average nine-to-five person. <\/strong> I\u2019m something of a free soul and used to do whatever I wanted whenever I wanted to before starting my business. But having the right partner in life and business, my wife, helped me to achieve a balance. <\/p>\n

If there's no Miles Davis in the morning, it\u2019s a bad omen. <\/strong> I wake up around 6:30-7:00 am with the kids and put on some Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Then I fix my coffee and sit with the kids before their mom gets them dressed and drops them off at the nursery. My children Ismail and Selim are my best friends in the world. They\u2019re like two little gangster hustlers.<\/p>\n

I unwind after work by either playing with my kids or working on music production. <\/strong> I have a studio downstairs where I play my flutes, put on some loops, and record (Soundcloud<\/a>). And sometimes I play the keyboard or the piano. I put my headphones on and I'm just disconnected from the world for a couple of hours. <\/p>\n

I love it when the people I supervise do it better than me \u2014 it means I'm doing my job <\/strong> right. <\/strong>My right-hand man, Otdb, is one of the best cooks I've ever met. You show him one time how it's done and halfway through he says, \u201cKhalas, I know.\u201d Then the next day he makes it better than you. <\/p>\n

Eventually, I\u2019d like to go live on a farm somewhere. <\/strong> I would take my wife and kids and we\u2019d just build a small shed, have some animals, farm and eat what we plant, and live on the land. I\u2019ve been looking at options in Thailand and Sri Lanka. First we have to work the financial aspect out as well as make sure the kids can go to school. It\u2019s my ultimate dream.<\/p>\n

\u2018Don\u2019t copy anyone\u2019 and \u2018create a place where people want to work\u2019 <\/strong> are the two bits of advice I\u2019d give to anyone who plans to start a business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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