Discover Morocco Through Its Food

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Moroccan Menu Decoder: French & Arabic Food Words

Moroccan Menu Decoder: French & Arabic Food Words You sit down in a Marrakech restaurant, the waiter hands you the menu, and half of it looks familiar — entrées, grillades, desserts — while the other half is a mystery: طنجية، بسطيلة، زعلوك. Moroccan menus mix French course words with Arabic and Darija dish names, sometimes…
Moroccan Spices: Ras el Hanout & Where to Buy Them

You smell a Moroccan spice square before you see it. Warm cumin, sweet cinnamon, something sharp and peppery you can’t name — the air does the advertising. Somewhere in that cloud sits the single most useful souvenir a food-loving tourist can buy: ras el hanout, the blend whose name literally means “head of the shop.”…
Merguez Sandwich: Morocco’s Spicy Sausage

You will smell the merguez sandwich before you see it. On any busy Moroccan street after dark, the smoke from a charcoal grill carries a very specific signal: cumin, hot fat, and chili. Follow it and you will find a narrow counter, a man turning thin red sausages with tongs, and a stack of baguettes…