Reinventing travel during lockdown forcing people to think differently
Unexpected spin offs whilst in lockdown, the Fez cooking school has discovered ways of allowing travellers to continue travelling during Covid19
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05, 2020
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06, 2018
The festival of world sacred music and the art of Islamic cuisine
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 [...]
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05, 2018
Chebbakia: Ramadan’s Queen of pastries
‘But I have 5 kilos of Chebbakia in my hand luggage, that’s why it’s overweight’ says the man just ahead of me in the check-in queue for the Air Arabia flight to London Gatwick. The member of Fez airport ground crew hesitates then looks up [...]
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05, 2018
A day in the country
Friday is the holy day in Morocco, where the mosques are the fullest; the midday prayer is the longest and where family kitchens excel in the variation and refinement of the Friday Family Couscous. But Sunday is the day where most people mark a [...]
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05, 2018
“Moroccan feast at a foodie hotel master class”
Excerpts from latest article in the daily mail online ‘Now, confession time’ writes Liz Hoggard in the dailymail.co.uk ‘I don’t cook much’. In a delightful article on the Tajine and side dishes cooking workshop at Fez Cooking School, Liz Hoggard, one of the top writers [...]
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04, 2018
Fez – A mosaic of daily life
Following the course of the river that bears the same name, Fez El-Bali spills down the hill from the plateau of the new town. In shades of cream and gold dotted with the green roofs of its places of worship, it sits there like [...]
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03, 2018
Lifting the Lid on the Moroccan Way of life
When travelling, we see unusual sights, sleep in unusual places, and eat unusual food. Tourists observe and move on. Travellers also observe, but they compare and compute, they scratch at the surface and are keen to understand where they find themselves. Travellers are looking [...]