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Devotees of Salsa gathered together to enjoy the commerative concert for the National Salsa Day.

Try this sauce.

Try this sauce.

Preparation of the sauce

Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce

Hunger is the best sauce.

This sauce is quite hot.

Kids love pasta in tomato sauce.

Her shirt was stained with sauce.

It's not blood. It's tomato sauce.

It's not blood. It's tomato sauce.

Pour the wine into the sauce.

Salsa nights in Egypt are totally different than anywhere else.

Kamba wa nazi (Prawns in coconut sauce)

A good appetite is a good sauce.

Nour, a 24 year old salsa dancer interviewed in the documentary, points to the contradictions and double standards dancing salsa can impose, particularly for women

Sara Reda illustrates this in her short audio documentary Salsa Egyptian Revolution Culture Resist and Salsa Persist, where she reveals the joy and confidence dancing salsa can provide to young Egyptian men and women, while reviewing some of its stickier aspects.

Conservatory students sing the choruses along with the guest Salsa singers.

'Wait a bit you must take some sauce,' said Oblonsky, stopping Levin's hand that was pushing away the sauce boat.

If sauce gets too thick, add some milk.

You have some spaghetti sauce on your face.

On his shirt there was a sauce stain.

The expansion of salsa in Cairo has been taking place for years.

The spread of salsa in Egypt hasn t been without certain challenges, however.

Poster for the second edition of the International Salsa Congress in Egypt.

Italian tomato sauce is what? It's blended it's thin.

Is there any sauce left? No, there is none.

It takes literally a minute to make the sauce.

Five years ago, news reporters wondered how long Cairo's salsa fever could last.

There were vegetables in the sauce, but no aroma, and whether or not there actually was any wine in the sauce remains a mystery.

It goes without saying that hunger is the best sauce.

As well as being a salsa signer, he is also known for singing boleros.

Yeah, I think salsa is spreading in a fast pace everywhere in Egypt now.

I personally chose the steamed cod and meatballs in tomato sauce.

I'm the guy who showed Tom how to make tomato sauce.

But it isn't women alone who face social restrictions, when it comes to dancing salsa.

This year the singer Cheo Feliciano and the singer and trumpet player Jerry Medina, two of the most important exponents of Salsa in Puerto Rico, joined the Conservatory students to celebrate the Day of Salsa.

When we talked about authentic tomato sauce in the 1970s, we talked about Italian tomato sauce. We talked about the earliest ragus, which had no visible solids, right?

People swore they were eating barbecue sauce, and this is free food.

They had a notion, a Platonic notion, of what tomato sauce was.

Levin obediently helped himself to sauce, but would not let Oblonsky eat.

Often seasoned with ponzu sauce, it is also a common sushi topping.

It could be anything. It could be salsa music or a comedy routine it doesn't matter.

Salsa devotees congregated in the Conservatory's Rafael Hernández Ampitheater to enjoy this cultural and musical expression.