/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5145497
a good couscous must be made in a tajine.

Does /ck/ even into Couscous?

Why the fuck is couscous considered 'Moroccan' in the west? It's berber, it's eaten in Tunisia and Algeria (where I'm from) too. Tagines as well are called Moroccan, wot? It's fucking berber, we have loads of them in my house and we're not fucking Moroccan. Even berbers themselves are thought of as just coming from Morocco (...I'm not from fucking Morocco)

Recently it was the last straw when a Moroccan guy I talked to said something about couscous being Moroccan, I said 'No, not necessarily, Algerians and Tunisians eat it a lot too' and he fucking replied 'Yeah, same with Indian restaurants, it's not actually Indians cooking the food, but Bengalis and the like', I lost my nut.

Imagine if all noodles were considered 'Chinese', that would be ridiculous wouldn't it?

And what is with the couscous salads?

What's also funny is that Algeria is fucking big, and inbetween Algeria and Tunisia (and much bigger than the two put together, but it's ignored every time a tv show, especially cookery ones, shows the map. A big chunk of North Africa almost completely ignored, in an episode dedicated to North African cuisine.

Any food history experts know why couscous is considered Moroccan?