Background Information on Cooking & Eating habits in Morocco

The Basics of Cooking | Concerning the Solar Cooker   There are two options for cooking: baking with oil or boiling in water. The first one takes place at about 180 degrees, the second one at 100 degrees. Every 10 degrees the temperature rises, the reaction of cooking goes twice as fast. This is why stir-fried vegetables are ready more quickly than vegetables that are boiled in water. With solar…

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