Customer Reviews
Magnificent! - By: , 14 Mar 2002 
How can I begin to describe the pleasure of this book? Not only is the design & layout breathtaking - the recipes, though challlenging at times, are a delight to make & consume!
Although my partner doesn't usuallly enjoy North African dishes - a trick of leaving the beautifully illustrated book open on the kitchen counter usuallly results in a 'that looks good - when are we having that then?'!
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone with a passion for intense, seductive flavours & a love of cooking!
A travelogue with recipes - By: , 04 Jan 2002 
If you enjoy travelbooks as well as cook books, this is one for you. The writer provides an introduction to the countries of the Mahgreb - Tunisia,Algeria & Morocco - well illustrated with photographs & stories of trafvels & encounters (of the gastronomic kind). For recipes,Moro probably has the edge. But if you have ever enjoyed a visit to North Africa, or would like to,this book provides insights that you won't find in the travel guides. It manages to get inside the culture, & the cooking, without being too precious, yet still maintaining a great sense of love & enthusiasm for the area & its traditions. A book to come back to, & to explore. And if your'e lucky, it will also inspire some good cooking!
Inspiring images of Morrocco but uninspiring recipes. - By: lizzygrey@hotmail.com, 28 Jun 2001 
I bought this book having loved the restaurant & was disappointed. Although not expecting to recapture the heady ambience of dining with rock stars I was hoping for photographic temptation & passionate food writing, I felt let down on both counts. The book seems to concentrate more on encouraging trips to North Africa than cooking its dishes. The recipes not only fail to culinarily inspire but use many extraordinary & inaccessable ingredients. I did cook a Morroccan meal for 12 from this book, & it was enthusiasticallly consumed, although due to the absurdity of the suggested components the finished feast bore little semblance to the original.
