John Dory or Golden Yellow, an unlovely fish to love. Presenting the John Dory Take a look at a John Dory and you wonder why anyone would want to eat it. Its flat bony body and lethal spike is not remotely appetising. And its [...]
Palais Amani: a memorable day, or how to learn the secrets of Sephardic cooking at the Fez Cooking School.We recently welcomed the Singer’s for a Sehardic cooking workshop.Their appreciation of what turned out to be a whole day is so evocative of our culinary experiences [...]
Thanksgiving meets Eid Al Mawlid at Palais Amani This year, two calendars meet. Thanksgiving meets Eid Al Mawlid and this very rare event necessarily called for celebrations at the Palais Amani. On November 22nd, we celebrated the birth of the prophet and Thanksgiving for all our in-house guests [...]
An oasis of calm Our kind of oxymoron says Samia Qaiyum in a recent article where she writes about her impressions of an oasis of calm at Palais Amani. In a recent trip to Fez, Ms Qaiyum, fell upon and fell in love with Palais [...]
The success of foodie experiences by Tracey Davies in Click. By Booking.com Eat like a local or making "dough" out of food Travellers experiences in recent years have "morphed" from ticking off the things to see, to wanting to experience destinations through the eyes of a [...]
Couscous, a traditional moroccan dish Every Friday like clockwork in households all over Morocco, carrots, courgettes, turnips are bought, cut and cooked in order of their density. Seasonal vegetable variations such as aubergines and peppers in the summer, rich red pumpkin in the autumn or [...]
Feasting and the inauguration of Fez Cooking School The official opening Copper pots gleam in the sunlight, a basket of summer vegetables sits neatly on the oiled stone work surface and a thick red satin ribbon flutters gently in the wind. The scene is [...]
Breaking the fast This year’s month of fasting is drawing to an end. Last night was the 27thnight of Ramadan, the sacred night, where prayers are the most fervent, and where children dress in their finest new clothes and go out after dark to [...]
This year’s theme at the 24th edition of the festival of World Sacred Music in Fez is Ancient Knowledge in all its forms. There will be debates on Asthetics and Symbolics, discussions on Andalusian Architecture and the Art of living and concerts with music from [...]
This week in the medina in Fez, the market stalls are piled high with artichokes, which is always a sign that summer is just round the corner as their abundance tends to precede a spate of much warmer weather in this part of North [...]