Recipes
Bitter Sweet: Summer 2025
Publication date: February 15, 2023 I am booking presentations, book signings, and dinners featuring Blanche's recipes. It's a really fun event... Just send me an email for more information. Merci! Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied...
Mint Tea and Minarets/Le Riad au bord de l’OUED (excerpt, reviews, presentations)
October 2024 : Out of print but I have a few copies left..... View an excerpt on ISSUU at https://issuu.com/bismillah-21/docs/mintteaminarets_txt-2ndedition-web...
365 Ways to Cook Vegetarian
This book was part of the extremely popular 365 collection from Harper Collins in the early 1990s. It has long been out of print... but, in a strange twist of fate, it is a book I cook from all the time! If you can find a used one somewhere, let me know! or buy it and...
Come With Me to the Kasbah: A Cook’s Tour of Morocco/my first cookbook
June 2025: TWO copies remaining! I can sign and send at your request. Heading I am still so proud of this book, which has now come down to two remaining copies on my shelf. I imported 2000 books from Morocco, where it was printed in Salé, outside Rabat. And here we...
Pair of 12-inch diameter Vintage Traditional Moroccan Sieves for sifting couscous.
$30.00 plus shipping Two vintage sieves purchased at a Moroccan country souk at least 35 years ago. I know, don't laugh, but I fell in love with these sieves while walking through the souk at Oualidia, a gorgeous lagoon on the way to Essaouira. I have never used them...
Vintage, 22-inch diameter hand-crafted straw basket from Morocco. Colors.
$30.00 plus shipping One large vintage straw basket from Morocco used as a prop in my cookbooks, and also to serve dry foods such as bread or crackers. Very good condition, though a little faded, but the basket itself is at least 40 years...
Vintage, 22-inch diameter, hand-crafted straw basket from Morocco
$30.00 plus shipping One large vintage straw basket from Morocco. I used it as a prop in my cookbooks, and also to serve dry foods such as bread or crackers. Plain, very good condition, though a little faded, but the basket is at least 40 years old. From my personal...
Two Vintage Hand Crafted Copper/Aluminum Bestila Pans from Morocco
$90.00 for the pair plus shipping During my tours to Morocco, I always made sure we could observe a local dada (professional cook) make bestila from scratch using a bestila pan... by hand of course. The pair goes together because: The pan with an aluminum base, TBSIL...
Kitty is selling
From my personal collection: SET OF TWO vols $600.00 plus shipping in the US via media mail. Excellent condition. Rare. More photos available upon request July 3, 2024 A set of two rare books on Moroccan architecture from my father's collection. The book on ceramics...
Morocco travel links
News of Morocco and elsewhere: Ramadan Is Here. What Islam’s Holiest Month Is about. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/06/world/middleeast/islam-ramadan-2016.html?ref=world&_r=0 No great surprise here: Three religions coexist, and gather to break the fast of Ramadan....
Triangular handcrafted inlaid box from Essaouira
Inlaid wood box from Morocco The hinged box measures 14-inches on each side, and is 4 ¾-inches deep. It has never been used for anything but display, and bears a few shelf marks on the base. It is in excellent condition, and still emits its unique thuya wood...
Greens to fend off the Corona Virus, April 2020
Since I belong to the age group that should stay away from supermarkets, I decided to keep up a steady supply of greens during the quarantine by joining the CSA at the family farm down the street. Faced with an overabundance of kale, chard, and beet greens, I...
July 2024: kittymorse.com is going through an update
Would you believe I began writing The Kasbah Chronicles and this website in 2010 or 2011... It's time for a major update. I love feedback. Keep in touch! Please bear with me. It is really coming. Thank you so much for remaining a reader.
The Kasbah Chronicles: June 2024 KCRW Santa Monica radio interview
To my dismay, I realize how infrequently I post news on my website. I give all my news in my sort-of-monthly blog, The Kasbah Chronicles, which I send out through Substack. I always mean to post the blog here, and then I forget. If you need to reach me please leave a...