Product Description

More than just a collection of recipes, "Moroccan Cuisine" also contributes to our understanding of Morocco, its people, their culture and the influences that played a part in establishing the particular cookery of the country.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #235767 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Customer Reviews

This is one of the best Moroccan cookery books around
If you want to cook authentic marrocan cusine this is the book for you . However this book is not for the beginner , Omars couscous is absolutely fantastic as is the Bastilla {Pidgeon and egg pie with ground almonds}

It also has a good dinner party planner at the back to help you plan your meal.

No pictures

Very tasty book.
Whilst you'll need a pretty good grasp of kitchen technique to get the most of this book, I unhesitatingly recommend it. The recipes are lucid and easy to use (baring in mind my initial caveat), and they show a real understanding and love for the food described and the culture that produced it. It's also sufficiently well written as to not suffer for the lack of pictures: quite the contrary in fact, pictures would interupt the text.

Well worth the price, or even twice the price........

Good selection of authentic Moroccan dishes
A good selection of authentic and traditional Moroccan dishes. Paula Wolfert spent two years there from 1959-61 travelling around collecting recipes. This book in its first incarnation originally dates from 1973, so hasn't been influenced by any tinkering around with recipes "reinterpreted with a modern twist" as many food writers are wont to do, so you know what you are getting is genuine.

Lacks any photographs of the dishes (always a negative for me when it comes to cookbooks). Overall not quite as good as other books by Paula Wolfert I have (The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen: Recipes for the Passionate Cook, The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean).