/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6118777
I spent a couple weeks in Morocco last year, and the food was very good. What was odd was that dining out is not so much of a thing there, so the more expensive restaurants generally sucked (from the handful I tried). The street food, the home cooking and the little joints near mosques or baths were where the good food was.

Tagines often land in a middle ground between Middle Eastern stews and curries, with lots of nuance and flavor. At night on the street one could get various grilled sausages. Merguez was a little expensive (and elusive), but smaller, similarly spiced sausages that obviously contained some organ meat were cheap, tasty and easily found. In the medina in Fez I found a guy making sandwiches of steamed veal head seasoned with cumin salt and hot pepper, and I pine for them to this day.

Simple plates of grilled/fried vegetables (peppers and eggplant) and nicely seasoned white kidney beans were available from little places neat mosques, and with a hunk of bread made for delicious (and cheap) lunches.

Best meals of the trip were a chicken tagine cooked by a Berber family in the Sahara desert, a meatball and egg tagine in tomato sauce at a little joint in Chefchaouen and everything I ate over several visits to Chez Thami in the Fez Medina (though his fish tagine really stands out).

If any of you make it to Fez I recommend eating at Chez Thami at least once. It's in front of the baths by the Blue Gate. Fucking delicious, cheap and right in the heart of the medina.