People have asked us a lot about the food in Morocco. It was wonderful! But I don’t feel like I have good words to describe it. Definitely a lot of spices, all mixed up together. A lot of meat. They also love sweets (even including chocolate cake for breakfast)
Most meals included a tagine, which is pretty much a stew, usually meat with some vegetables, but sometimes fruit (one included quince, which I had never eaten before, despite a life-long obsession with “The Owl and the Pussycat”). Every meal included olives, even breakfast. Eating olives at 8 am alongside my coffee seemed weird at first, but it grew on me.
The kids discovered that they don’t like coffee, but they like Berber coffee, which has some different spices in it. They got bored with Moroccan food every day—at home, we eat food influenced by so many cultures over the course of a week, and I didn’t even realize it until we spent two weeks eating very similar food every day.
One thing that we liked a lot was how simple the menus were, everywhere we ate. Breakfast at the riads were a set menu with no choices to make. Many restaurants we visited had only a handful of options. Navigating it with a food allergy (or vegetarianism) would have been challenging, but for a family of people who like to stare, overwhelmed, at a big menu and then order the same thing every time, it was perfect. The kids miss these simple menus!
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