Moroccan cuisine is famous for its subtle blending of spices, herbs and honey with meat and vegetables. In Fez, the nation's culinary heart, the cooking has numerous influences – Arab and Berber, with hints of Jewish, African and French. The country's classic dishes are couscous, tagines or stews, and bistilla, an exquisite pie made with a flaky pastry.<br><br>Capturing the atmosphere of Fez, cultural capital of the medieval Moorish world, Madame Guinaudeau takes us behind closed doors into the kitchens and dining rooms of the old city. She invites us to a banquet in a wealthy home, shopping in the spice market and to the potter's workshop, shares with us the secrets of preserving lemons for a tagine, shows us how to make Moroccan bread.<br><br><em>Traditional Moroccan Cooking</em> is the perfect introduction to a mouth-watering culinary heritage and a vivid description of an ancient and beautiful city. It offers a taste of the delights to be found in one of the world's great gastronomic centres.<br><br> 'A jewel and an inspiration'<br>Deborah Madison
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Madame Guinaudeau. Traditional Moroccan Cooking
FOREWORD
PREFACE
AUTHOR’S FOREWORD
TABLE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
THE KITCHEN
UTENSILS FOR COOKING AND SERVING
POTTERY
SPICES
RAS EL HANOUT
OLIVES
LEMONS PRESERVED IN SALT
BREAD
SOUPS
BISTILLA
BROCHETTES
CHOUA
KEFTA
RGHAIF
TRID
SNAILS
COUSCOUS
CHARIYA
SALADS
EGGS
LBEN
BUTTER
FISH
TAGINES
CHICKEN
STUFFED CHICKEN
MUTTON
OTHER MEATS
FRIED, BROWNED AND MARINATED MEATS
QAMAMA TAGINES
TFAIA TAGINE
KDRAS
SPRING TAGINES
SUMMER TAGINES
FRUIT TAGINES
TAGINES WITH FRUIT AND HONEY
VEGETABLES
CAKES AND PASTRIES
EL MAJOUN
FRUIT
DRINKS
THE ART OF MAKING AND DRINKING TEA
AROMATICS
THE DISTILLATION OF ORANGE BLOSSOM AND ROSE PETALS
NEZAHA
RESTAURANTS
CAFÉS
THE MARKETS AND FOOD SHOPS OF FEZ
MECHOUI
THE CORPORATION OF COOKS
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
INDEX
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When years ago I travelled to research Morocco’s cooking, Madame Guinaudeau was mentioned to me by everybody I met and I talked to several people who boasted that they had given her recipes. They all spoke of her with affection and respect. Today, although a number of books have appeared on the subject of their country’s cuisine, a younger generation of Moroccans has the greatest respect for Madame Guinaudeau’s Fès Vu par sa Cuisine, first published in 1958 and translated here as Traditional Moroccan Cooking: Recipes from Fez. That the most exclusive restaurant in Fez has been called Fés Vu par sa Cuisine is an indication of the high regard in which the book is held. Moroccans are immensely proud of their cuisine and rightly regard it as one of the best in the world, so for a foreign author to be so highly esteemed by them is no small accolade.
By all accounts the book was the first on Moroccan cooking since an anonymous compilation of Maghrebi and Andalusian recipes appeared in Arabic in Spain in the twelfth century. (As her book went off to press Madame Guinaudeau added a note that she had thought she was the first person to write about Moroccan food, but that after writing it she heard that a work by John, 4th Marquis of Bute, entitled Moorish Recipes was published in Edinburgh in 1955.) That is merit in itself, but the book is also remarkable in many other ways. There is in Madame Guinaudeau’s writing a truth and authenticity which is rarely found in cookery books. Every recipe, every description, every detail of people’s lives which she gives is the result of her own observation, which makes her book completely original and absolutely unique; there is passion and enthusiasm which comes through in every page.
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It is not seemly to offer water, which distends the stomach, but if necessary one can ask to quench one’s thirst.
The meat dishes finished, the broken bones are rapidly swept away, the table cleared.
