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Summary: Experience a gastronomic journey!
Review: "Eat Smart in Morocco" uses significant historical facts to trace the rich culinary treasures of Morocco and its land. Readers can become more familiar with the culture and civilization through this guidebook and delight themselves with recipes from various contributors. The guidebook confirms that we can touch the heart of another culture through the flavors of its food and experience a gastronomic journey.
----Rafih Bengelloun, chef/owner of the Imperial Fez restaurant in Atlanta
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Summary: Wonderful and Evocative
Review: "Eat Smart in Morocco" is rich with detailed information and mouth-watering recipes, written with style and common sense. Packed with new information, this book makes good reading at home and is a valuable guide to Morocco as well."
---Paula Wolfert, author of "Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco"
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Summary: As much fun to browse through as it is to cook from
Review: Eat Smart In Morocco is the latest addition to Joan Peterson's superb series of travel guides for the culinarily adventurous. This time the focus in on Moroccan cuisine and is as much fun to browse through as it is to cook from, -- or to plan a trip with The reader/traveler will learn how to decipher Moroccan menus, learn about Moroccan market places, and add exotic Moroccan dishes to their dining and meal preparing repertoires. The informative and lively text is enhanced with a chapter devoted to such resources as mail-order suppliers of Moroccan foods, tours and travel agencies, and thematically useful organizations. There is also a chapter on "Helpful Phrases" including phrases for ordering in restaurants and shopping in food markets. The "Menu Guide" section lists menu entries in transliterated Moroccan Arabic with English translations. A "Food and Flavors Guide" provides the reader with a comprehensive glossary for ingredients, kitchen utensils, and cooking methods. If you are planning a trip to this fabulous North African country, begin with reading Joan Peterson's Eat Smart In Morocco!
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Summary: Perfect guidebook for a memorable culinary journal
Review: Joan Peterson, the culinary mistress of the EAT SMART series, returns to feed our continuing love affair with foreign foods and flavors in her latest book, Eat Smart in Morocco. As much a travel guide as it is a cookbook, Peterson shares her knowledge of the history and cultural significance of native dishes as well as the traditions and secrets of Moroccan cooks. Her culinary tribute to the land and its people should be part of an official welcome packet given to every foreign visitor when they first step on Moroccan soil. As she writes, "What better way to know a culture than through its cuisine." Particularly helpful to travelers are her bilingual menu, and food and flavor guides. Whether you're a novice or experienced traveler, Eat Smart in Morocco is the perfect reference for a memorable culinary journey. --Kimberly Ouhirra, President, Exotica Oils, Inc.
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Summary: What a good idea!
Review: This book is one of a type I was not familiar with: books for travelers who are also "foodies", that is, people for whom trying the local food is one of their main pleasures while traveling.This book will let foodies explore Morocco's rich and unique cuisine in thier homes before leaving via descriptions of both the food and its context, and it even provides recipes to try first. Once in Morocco, there is a directory of regional cuisine, and a menu guide with transliterated Arabic names of dishes to help in ordering. I find Moroccan food some of the world's best and most varied, and this book makes it accessible to everyone. I've traveled and worked in Morocco off and on for the last 35 years, and can attest that the recipes and descriptions are well-researched and accurate. Readers should enjoy this book, as a travel guide or as a 'virtual' trip to Morocco.
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Summary: What a good idea!
Review: This book is one of a type I was not familiar with: books for travelers who are also "foodies", that is, people for whom trying the local food is one of their main pleasures while traveling. This book will let foodies explore Morocco's rich and unique cuisine in thier homes before leaving via descriptions of both the food and its context, and it even provides recipes to try first. Once in Morocco, there is a directory of regional cuisine, and a menu guide with transliterated Arabic names of dishes to help in ordering. I find Moroccan food some of the world's best and most varied, and this book makes it accessible to everyone. I've traveled and worked in Morocco off and on for the last 35 years, and can attest that the recipes and descriptions are well-researched and accurate. Readers should enjoy this book, as a travel guide or as a 'virtual' trip to Morocco.
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