At the House of Fusion Marrakech, begin this edgy, 8-dish Moroccan fusion lunch class at 08:50, discussing your class menu over coffee, writing the shopping list in Arabic. The class is fully participatory, designed for the true food enthusiast.
Take your newly-learned Arabic to the market, choosing produce from the barrow men outside and the traders inside the souk. The herb tea man, is the first stop, at the market entrance. Here you will slap bundles of mint against your arm, releasing their aroma and choosing the varieties you love most, then it's on to choose fish, chicken, nuts, vegetables and herbs, with your shopping list, firmly in your hand.
The perfect small, unblemished aubergine to blister, oranges just right for zesting, onions to go whoosh across the mandolin and chickens fresh as fresh can be.
Back at the prep table, aprons on and tasting spoons in the pocket, you will begin by chopping the herbs, stopping to begin the tea making, where you will truly come to know the nuances of this ceremony and make the best tea to pass your lips, in Morocco. You will discover when sugar is used to areate and infuse, three times washed tea, what you have is nectar of the gods as opposed to the syrup when used as a cammoflague agaist dirty tea.
You will slice, grate, shake, stir, chop and mix your divine feast and emerge fully versed in the nuances of spices before going to our spice trader at the end of the class, after lunch, to choose spices to take home.
You will learn the applications of utensils used in these edgy dishes, which rely heavily, on traditional Moroccan norms.
You will also have some tomato salt to take home, which you will have made from tomato peelings and salt from salt pans we visit on escapades, a few hours away.
We hope to change forever, how you stand before your stoves...