Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Postcard from Marrakech #3: Food NYC versus RAK

We immediately noticed some differences between Marrakesh (airport code RAK) and NYC.

Whole Foods' onion displays are nothing like this!



Dean & Deluca doesn't have quite this selection of dried fruits and nuts (and woven rafia bags)!



And who serves snails like the guys at Jemaa al Fnaa!



But more importantly, why state am I in where it is ok to eat these snails?


(With new friends Rowan and Daniela, picking out tender pieces of antenna-extravagant snails, in a murky brown broth, from small shells, and somehow eating them)

If you can't beat them, then join them. So instead of lamenting the arrival of yet another tagine dish, we decided to create them, via tagine cooking school.


(Displaying our hard-earned side dishes--eggplant and peppers-- with the demanding Fatima scowling in the background)

Tagine overload?

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