Grandma Elmaleh's Moroccan Cookbook

Book excerpt: NATIONAL & REGIONAL CUISINE. For over fifty years Sarah Elmaleh, the Moroccan-Jewish mother of a large immigrant family in the US, cooked sumptuous meals for family and friends. Her unique blend of Jewish and Oriental cookery, derived from early years in the port town of Essaouira, Morocco, formerly known as Mogador, produced hundreds of recipes, most of which she kept in her head, until her granddaughter, Lisa Elmaleh Craig, sat her down and made her divulge her culinary secrets. This charming book combines recipes, reminiscences and research with the author's own line drawings and colour plates, to provide a verbal feast for the food-oriented reader as well as recipes ranging from a simple breakfast to a family feast.