Moroccan Culinary Art Museum (MCAM)
Zellige-tiled palace courtyards hosting live demonstrations of Moroccan cooking traditions.
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This guide to the Moroccan Culinary Art Museum in Marrakesh is built around the Dadas, the women cooks who guard Moroccan recipes as tradition rather than write them down, inside a roughly three-hundred-year-old palace in the old medina. It traces how Berber, Jewish and Andalusian Arab cooking traditions folded together into one cuisine over centuries, and walks you through the palace's courtyards, from a Carrara marble fountain to a rooftop where bread still bakes in the open air.
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