When you’re invited by a family to have dinner, it is appropriate to take your shoes of when you enter. It is also common to bring a present. Moroccans mostly eat with their hands, the right hand (because you use your left hand at the toilet). Before dinner, everyone washes their hands ritually in orange blossom water. They do not have a plate for each person, but they eat out of one big bowl, placed on the middle of the table. The low, round table often takes a central position in the living room. All the family members sit around this table on cushions. Licking your fingers afterwards is part of the Moroccan etiquettes. Men and women often eat separately, in this case the men eat first. The most used cooking device is the tajine, a ceramic bowl.
Moroccan people drink a lot of tea, this is mostly mint tea, the sweeter the better. The tea is served in little glass cups. When you’re invited to drink some tea, it is appropriate to drink three little cups of tea and then leave.
It is not considered appropriate for women to drink alcohol.
Examples of Moroccan food:
Couscous:
Briouats:
Mechoui:
Sources:
Infotalia.com,. (2015). MAROKKO - KEUKEN - EETGEWOONTES - TAJINE - KOKEN - MAROKKAANS. Retrieved 29 October 2015, from http://www.infotalia.com/nld/culinair/streekkeukens/marokkaanse_keuken/eetgewoontes_detail.asp?id=3031
Reisgraag.nl,. (2015). Marokkaanse cultuur | Reisgraag.nl. Retrieved 29 October 2015, from https://www.reisgraag.nl/vakantie-marokko/marokkaanse-cultuur