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A Taste of Morocco: Cook Up Morocco - A 10 Day Culinary Adventure

A Taste of Morocco: Cook Up Morocco - A 10 Day Culinary Adventure
Hit the Road of the Old Caravans
Duration: 9:00am – 6:00pm Daily
Morocco Travel Included: Morocco Tour as described, Cooking Classes, Morocco Transport, English, Arabic, French Speaking Driver, Local, Expert Historical Guides, Fes Food Tour, Chefs & Culinary Experience
Starting & Finishing Point: Casablanca

A TASTE OF MOROCCO - Discover Trade Routes & Spice Markets, the world of Moroccan Street Food, Bake Bread with the Berbers and Make Your own Tajine at a Moroccan cookery class.

A Taste of Morocco is a culinary delight (Book a Tour or call (800) 787-8806). Let us be your guide to Morocco Travel.

DAY 1: CASABLANCA – FRESH GRILL AT THE PORT - FES  

▶ Pick up from Casablanca airport.

▶ Start your visit at the Hassan II Mosque, one of the largest mosques in the world that stands besides the sea and boasts stunning views along with breathtaking arches and zellij tiled walls, floors and fountains. 

▶ Lunch at Casa’s port, the Corniche with a wide open view of the Atlantic Ocean. A taste of Casablanca while you purchase fresh fish from the Port, then hand it over to the locals to cook up. 

▶ After lunch take the road to Fes.

▶Arrive in Fes. Welcome drink followed by orientation and dinner. Dinner at your riad and spend the night in Fes.

DAY 2: FES – DISOCVER THE WORLD OF MOROCCAN STREET FOOD

▶Breakfast and early Rise. Begin your day by discovering the world of Moroccan streetfood in Fes 

▶You will visit three different food souks allowing the chance to try traditional Moroccan street food  including dried meats, milawi, harsha, briwats, spicy sardines, spicy potato cakes, soups, olives and more. At the honey souk we’re you’ll be able to taste an array of delicious wild honeys, discuss their flavors and health-giving properties and find out why honey is so important in Moroccan cooking and Islamic culture. Investigate traditional cooking methods by visiting a furnatchi where the water for the communal bath house ‘hammam’ is also heated, and a 400 year old ‘furan’ or communal oven and bakery. Discover the world of spices and their uses and the secrets of the male-oriented domain of the tea den under the  guidance of a culinary leader and story-teller. Or learn to bake bread in the 400 year old community oven with the baker overseeing your hands-on efforts. Take your hot bread to the honey souk to try it with 8 artisanal wild honeys, aged butter or khlia, spicy dried beef.The Moroccan Culinary Experience The hands-on cooking classes take place right in the heart of a family house – the kitchen. This is a very intimate experience, staying in a villa with the family and being immersed into family life in Morocco. You’ll learn the intricacies of Moroccan cuisine and then of course savour your creations. 

▶Enjoy Moroccos’ Gardens in the afternoon. Cocktail at Le Jardin De Bierhn with views of this Andalusian Garden.

▶Spend the night at a Charming Riad in Fes.

DAY 3: FES – PASTILLA MAKING IN FES

▶Following breakfast, you will be taken you to the souk to shop for your first cooking class.

▶During your first class you will see how ouarka (the dough used in b'steeya) is made and perhaps have time to buy a few spices to take home.

▶Lunch to follow.

▶Depart for a guided tour of Fes el Bali (Old Fes) to learn some of Fes's history, tour the souks, see the mosques and medersas and visit the famous leather tanneries. 

▶Within the old medina, we will the following historical sites: 

▶Medersa Bou Inania: 
An (Islamic school) founded by Abu Inan Faris that is highly decorated from floor to ceiling. The medersa is one of the few religious places in Morocco that is accessible to non- Islamic tourists.

▶Kairaouine Mosque: Morocco’s second largest mosque. The Kairaouine Mosque became the home of the West's first university and the world's foremost center of learning at the beginning of the second millennium. 

▶Berber Carpet Demonstration:

The Famous Exhibition of Antique and Modern Carpets is one of the

places in Fès el Bali where you can see a Berber carpet demonstration. You will be offered mint tea and follow your guide up a coil of stairs to a small area to watch carpets being made by young girls who come from the mountains to show tourists how Berber carpets are made 

▶Shopping in the Medina: We will visit the baboosh souk where

they sell beautiful hand made shoes, cafdans, pottery, local Fassis crafts and fabric 

▶Return with some time at leisure before dinner. Spend the night in Fes.

▶Spend the night at a Charming Riad in Fes.

 DAY 4: FES -  IFRANE – AZRO – ERFOUD - MERZOUGA

▶Breakfast at your Riad. Take the road to Morocco’s Sahra Desert.

▶En route stop in Ifrane for Pastries.

▶Continue the road to Erfoud

▶Camel Trek into the Moroccan Sahara Desert.

▶Sunset Views and Overnight in the Moroccan Sahara Desert.

DAY 5: MERZOUGA – RISSANI – AIT OUZZINE - NKOB

▶Breakfast in the Sahara Desert. Morning exploration.

▶Take the road to the town of Rissani. Visit the local souk and then experience a lesson on making Madfouna. Madfouna is the local stuffed pizza indigenous of the Sahara region.

▶Continue the road via Alnif to Ait Ouzzine.

▶Overnight in a Sandcastle Kasbah Hotel in Nkob.

DAY 6: NKOB – BREAD BAKING OF TRADITIONAL MADFOUNA IN THE MOUNTAINS WITH THE BERBERS – OUARZAZATE.

▶Breakfast in Nkob. Visit Ait Ouzzine, a traditional Ait Atta Village nestiled in the Jebel Saghro and Atlas Mountains.

▶Morning tea and greet the family. Then take the road into the mountains. Participate and learn how to make Bourafain, a traditional bread of the Berbers made in the mountains with volcanic rock. Bourafin consists of dough, secret spices, herbs and animal fat that is stuffed and combined into a bread that raises high and wide.

►Aït Ouzzine is a Berber village inhabited by over 300 families who live in beautifully painted crenulated kasbahs, with their own henna fields, water wells, livestock and gardens. This peaceful village is tucked away along an impressive desert route connecting the Draa Valley (Tansikht) and Rissani.

►Meet a local Berber family, partake in a cooking lesson of how to make traditional bread and a tajine.  Explore and tour the village by foot. Walk in the green fields and see how the traditional Berbers live with their gardens of herbs, live stock, and henna plants.

▶Explore the village. Henna Party with the Berbers. Take the road to Ouarzazate.

▶Overnight in Ouarazate at a Riad with views of the Atlas Mountains.

DAY 7: OUARZAZATE – AIT BENHADDOU KASBAH – OLD ROAD OF CARAVANS – TELOUET – MARRAKECH.

▶Breakfast in Ouarzazate at your Riad. Visit the Oasis of Fint, then take the road to visit Ait Benhaddou Kasbah, Kasbah Telouet.

▶Continue the road to Marrakech. En route stop at an Argan Cooperative. Tasting of Argan oil and Amlou. Lesson on how Amlous is made.

▶Lunch in a local restaurant with cuisine made with Argan oil.

▶Overnight in Marrakech at a charming Riad in the old medina.

DAY 8: MARRAKECH

▶Breakfast at your Riad.

▶Start the day with a visit of the Majorelle Gardens, then explore Marrakech’s most important sites – the Bahia Palaces, Ben Youssef Medersa, Saadian Tombs.

▶Lunch in the medina at Riad Monceau, a Riad with a leafy garden that specializes in haute Moroccan cuisine.

▶Shop the souks of Marrkaehc. Explore Souk Semmarine and enjoy the Djemaa El Fna Square

▶Before heading back to your Riad, go on a food tasting walk of the famous Djemaa. Exotic eats of snail soup, sheep’s heads and more. Taste or watch. It’s all a food experience.

▶Overnight in Marrakech at a charming Riad in the old medina. 

DAY 9: MARRAKECH – COOKING WORKDSHOP AT – FREE DAY – INDULGE IN A MOROCCAN HAMMAM

►10:00am - 14:30 (2:30opm) – Cooking Workshop 
The workshops are conducted by a dada (traditional Moroccan cook) or a chef from our Moroccan restaurant, and are held at the hotel. Small groups of maximum 10 participants work alongside a translator (Arabic/English/French), using easy-to-use modern equipment found in everyday kitchens. At the end of each workshop, participants dine on the meal they have prepared. At a typical half-day workshop, one learns to prepare an appetizer and a main dish, or a main dish and dessert. 

Cooking Class Overview:

Greeting and overview of Moroccan cuisine by an English speaking interpreter

Demonstration of how Moroccan bread is made

Visit a communal bread oven and hotel spice market

Work and cook at your own workstation alongside the Dades to prepare a delicious Moroccan meal

Moroccan Meal Description: Two Moroccan cooked salads, Chicken & Lemon Tajine with Preserved Lemons & Olives. Pastilla with Milk for Desert.

Participate in a Moroccan Tea Ceremony

Dine on the mouth-watering lunch that you have prepared

Option to add Moroccan wine pairings  

Zaalook- Eggplant salad- (Starter)

First Course: Tagine beef and prunes

Second Course: Fish with chermoula (a marinade)

Dessert: Carrot orange dish

Mint tea

Menu 2

Seafood Bastilla – Pastry with seafood (Starter)

First Course: Chicken lemon

Second Course: Vegetarian couscous

Dessert: Gazelle horn and mint tea

And many more menus are available.

▶ Spend the remainder of the evening at leisure (this is an opportunity to return to the souk to shop or perhaps to visit the local hammam). 

▶Overnight at a Charming Riad in Marrakech in the old medina.

DAY 10: MARRAKECH – CASABLANCA DEPARTURE