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Cookie Anyone?,
originally uploaded by Raven Weaver.

Guess who took her gateaus du Maroc cooking class yesterday? Now added to my repertoire are coconut cookies (always happy to have a new variation), peanut cookies, almond paste filled filo bundles and gazelle horns. Orders may be taken but I cannot promise to fill them as they may get eaten before delivery. Sorry. Jonah J. Though I was still a bit under the weather, I couldn't bear to cancel on Fatima-Zohra again and so made my way up to her house yesterday afternoon.

Please Pass the Yoga...

Harira,
originally uploaded by Raven Weaver.

...because the Moroccan food is wonderful. While searching on the internet in Canada before coming here, I found a company that is very careful about trying to be beneficial to individual Moroccan families. They set up homestays with a family whose daughter shows you the ropes of her honey production or you might take some cooking classes with a local woman. I had found a few cooking class options but they were either in local cafes or with a chef of a maison d'hotes. To my mind, these were already faring quite well on their own. I preferred the idea of learning from a local woman in her own kitchen. Thus I met Fatima-Zohra.