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Daily Archives: October 30, 2022

Smoking Tajines and Savory Spices: How to Cook Authentic Moroccan Food

One of the best ways to learn the intimacies of foreign cuisines (and sample the goods!) is to take a cooking class when you travel. I had this amazing experience at Dar Rhizlane Palais and Table D’Hotes one recent morning in Marrakech. The word tajine refers to both the conical-shaped dish and the food that’s cooked inside it, which is usually a blend of delicious sweet and savoury flavours. Traditionally …

Lords of the High Atlas, How to Ride a Camel and a Saharan Night Under the Stars

Morocco is alternately overwhelming, delicious, friendly and vicious. It offers a constant assault on the senses, enhanced by true tales of its barely believable past. And everywhere, there are children. Boys mostly but occasionally a young girl with her mother close by, begging. I asked permission to take her picture and bought trinkets from these women alongside the road where we stopped to take a “panoramic picture.” First, the ride …