Planet Food - Morocco DVD

Our journey starts in Casablanca with a typical Moroccan breakfast, after which Ben, our Planet Food traveller, takes in some local culture and visits the worlds third largest religious monument Hassan II Mosque before lunching at the camel market. On the road northbound Ben stops off for a roadside snack of couscous and milk situated next to local vineyards. Ben then moves on to the Imperial City of Fes where he gets lost in the oldest continually inhabited medina and is invited into an old home and learns how to cook the soup that breaks the Ramadan fast, Harira. Moroccan cooking is an aural tradition and recipes have been passed down from generation to generation. Onward to the gateway of the desert, the exotic city of Marrakesh where Ben explores the chicken market and olive market and meets up with the head chef of La Mamounia and learns how to make a classic Chicken Tagine and then embarks on the final leg of his journey, to the Portuguese fishing port of Essaouira. He explores the fish markets and meets some local fishermen and then cooks his final dish for some friends on the port.