Recipes
Bitter Sweet: Content description and reviews
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...
Talks and presentations MAY to JULY 2026
To keep up with my most recent presenations and chats, please follow my Substack page, The Kasbah Chronicles, also on this site. SATURDAY MAY 5th: Mission Hills, San Diego, CA Private Book Club THURSDAY MAY 14, 2026. University of California Diego Library Bitter...
Coronado Historical Society, Bitter Sweet chat and presentation Coronado, CA
November 6, 2025 Please join me in Coronado for a reception and chat...My husband and I were stationed in Coronado in the early 1970s.. I am going "home" and I am thrilled to benefit the historical society's celebration. Tickets required. KPBS Events Lectures &...
VINTAGE FOSSIL TABLE made from a SLAB mined in THE PRE-SAHARA DESERT
My father lived in Morocco for 50 years and he was among the first to explore the Kasbah Trail. One of his favorite oasis was Erfoud and neighboring Rissani, site of a huge fossil field. This table, however, he purchased from a local fossil expert. This size slab,...
SAVE THE DATE: Presentation and Book Signing in Santa Barbara, CA
At the beautiful Lodo Studios, Santa Barbara, CA 216 East Guttierez Street Saturday, July 19th, 2025, 2-4PM Please tell your friends, and feel free to reproduce this flyer: Screenshot
Bitter Sweet: A BBC travel newsletter mention!
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250605-how-world-war-two-changed-the-french-diet How World War Two changed how France eats June 6, 2025 Emily Monaco More than 80 years after D-Day, the recipes and ingredients introduced during France's wartime occupation are...
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...
Andre Paccard architectural books/rare
From my personal collection. Belongs in all architectural libraries. These two books teach and illustrate with templates how to reproduce Moroccan artwork and handicrafts, from tiles to plaster design. A rare pair of books that belonged to my father. Vintage original...