Recipes
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...
Mint Tea and Minarets finalist in the San Diego Book Awards
It's official! Mint Tea and Minarets: Chronicles from the Kasbah is a finalist in the 2012 San Diego Book Awards. Please send good vibes my way on June 9th, the day the winner is announced! http://www.sdbookawards.com/2012/05/03/2012-finalists My latest book, a memoir...
Media announcements and reviews
March 2014: Kitty in the media What a treat! A Mention in the March issue of Sunset magazine (p. 78) http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/fava-egg-salad-sandwiches-50400000133931/ A quick Moroccan meal:...
The last of the orange blossoms
April 2012 Little did I realize the meaning of chronic pain until I was subjected to a shoulder spasm that is now entering its seventh month. How the spasm came about remains a subject of debate, but my personal...
The Kasbah Chronicles Jan/Feb 2012
February 2 marks La Chandeleur (Candlemas), when crêpes are de rigueur on French tables--a tradition my mother upheld all the while I was growing up in Casablanca. Simply sprinkled a crêpe with a little powdered sugar, and celebrate! Another cause for celebration is...
A HOT couscous soup for a cold night!
Joyeuses Fêtes and Happy Holidays! (to paraphrase a Moroccan proverb) To each of you, I send a box filled with sesame seeds. Each seed representing one hundred wishes for peace, health, and happiness in 2012 Bonne Année, Bon Appétit and...
Kitty “Author of the Day” on Cookstr.com
Dear Kitty, We are very pleased that on December 7 youwill be featured as the Author of the Day on Cookstr.com. This means your name and photo will be on the home page — the first thing our visitors see when they click onto the site! >We hope you will let...
The Kasbah Chronicles/November 2011
In time for Thanksgiving My great-grandmother’s Cassolita Winter Squash with Caramelized Onions Serves 4 This baked squash dish traditionally complements the couscous of Tétouan, a city in Northern Morocco. In our family, cassolita or cazuelita ...
The Kasbah Chronicles/Tagine of Quince
October 2011 Nothing surprised me more two or three years ago, than to learn from one of my “foodie” cousins in Paris, that “Alloween” (with silent "h", sic) had taken root in France. Dozens of sites initiated novices to la soirée d’Halloween, from...
New title! The Kasbah Chronicles
Fall 2011 Friend and e-marketing expert Chris Pemberton came up with the catchy Kasbah Chronicles during a brainstorming session held over a strawberry waffle smothered in an Everest of whipped cream, specialty of the DipSea Café, in Mill Valley (CA)....
Beating the Heat at the Kasbah!
July 2011 (recipe for salmorejo is below) Dear friends: Sitting at my desk under the relatively cool skies of Southern California, I can’t help but feel sorry for those of you sweltering in the heartland, and up and down the East Coast. The fact that 143 MILLION...
Encore fava beans!
A New Way to Cook with Fava Beans! Leaves included! Some of you may know of my taste for fresh fava beans, that most underrated bean, at least among US cooks. Fava beans always come to mind at this time of the year, especially around Easter and Passover....