Wednesday, 5 May 2010

My summary is about Berber food of the Riff mountains. I interviewed Fatimah el-Youssi who is a Berber from the Riff mountains. if you don't know where the Riff mountains are it is in northern Morocco.
most popular Berber dish of that country is cous cous with honey meat and vegetables. The meat they most of the time use for that dish is sheep,chicken,goat and not pigeon because it costs too much. The spices they use are salt,black pepper
and paprika. Their is no foreign influence on Berber spices all the spices are from Morocco. The vegetables they use for this dish is carrots,peas,beans,tomato,parsly,garlic,green pepper it all depends on if it is in season. They eat it with whole wheat bread.
Dessert is raisins,grapes and figs or dry figs depends on season if it is figs season they eat fresh figs if it is not figs
season they dry it. They drink sour milk which they drink after or before dinner and they also drink tea. I think they should preserve the Berber food because it is unique and part of their identity to be enjoyed by everyone.