Berber Food Myriel

Berber Food

Berbers have their own special kind of food, this food is passed down from mother to daughter and it is a very important part of the Berber culture. The Berber Women cooks every day for their family with help of their daughters. They have Tajine mainly and sometimes also couscous, they mainly drink mint tea and they eat fresh fruit for their desert. For their afternoon coffee the adults drink mostly mint tea or coffee, and the children water or mint tea with dried dates and nuts.

Their main dishes are Tajine and couscous. Tajine is made out of meat, mostly chicken or lamb; it is cooked in a Tajine pot which is triangular with a round bottom. Couscous is also cooked in a Tajine pot, it is cooked with vegetables, sometimes there is also meat in the couscous. The Berbers eat Tajine everyday expect Fridays when they have Couscous. Couscous is also cooked in a Tajine pot, with a lot of Couscous and Vegetables, sometimes it also includes meat. They eat these two meals with bread which they beak on stone or clay ovens made by hand. They have a fire in the bottom of it and put the bread on top to beak it.

For Desert, Berbers usually eat fresh fruit and dried fruit, they grow their own fruit in their fields, and they always eat the fruits that are just in season. They eat grapes, apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries, kiwis and other fruit that grow in their environment. They also have figs and dates, these they dry for the seasons where no fresh fruit grow in their environment. For their afternoon coffee, hey drink tea, coffee or water and eat dried figs, dates, apricots and nuts that grow in their valleys.

They have many spices; they include them in every meal they cook. Some examples of their spices are Cinnamon, Sesame, Cumin, Coriander, Saffron and cloves. There is an adage says “Spices are the heart of a Berber meal”. Here are also some herbs such as Rose-marine that are used in their dishes, but it depends if they grow or if they are in season. Many spices are selled or traded on the markets; they are put into big bags with a kind of spoon and plastic bags to sell.

They drink the well known Moroccan tea which is very sweet and flavorful. It includes boiling water, fresh mint leaves, dried tea leaves or other herbs and a lot of sugar. It is ceremoniously prepared in front of the guests, or at least it was, not everyone is doing that anymore. While making tea, they have two tea pots, then they add tea leaves to each pot and rinse it with a little boiling water, then sugar is added to each pot and boiling water is added. Then they let the tea steep for a couple f minutes before they stir it. When they pour it into the glasses, they hold the pot about 12 inches over the tea glass. Tea drinking is a Social ritual; they drink tea for 5 times a day. It is prepared with the family or a group of people, on coal glow with plenty of leisure. When there is no time to cook or no food available, they drink tea instead of eating food. During Caravans, the desert Berbers make tea on top of the Camel. The tea distributes tiredness and gives energy. When a guest comes, tea is made and served, during abundant times; a bowl of camel milk is added.
In conclusion, the Berbers have their own food that they pass down by generations from mother to daughter, their cooking also influences the incoming Arabs a lot, but it is still considered their own specific food. Also very known is their Berber Tea that they cook and drink a lot.

Berber traditions

When we went to the Atlas Mountains, we found out a lot about the traditions and lives from the Berbers in which they believe in god and Mohamed the Prophet. First, As my group introduced a woman and their Children about Berber food, we found out that the children's treat is an egg. In comparison, we as a treat usually get something like Chocolate, Candy bar or MP3... In addition, they mostly eat Tajine for their Lunch and Dinner, However, the kids at school that are not Marrocan usually go to Mc Donalds or their Mother cooks something else for them. Another fact about Berber food is that almost every family has its own Walnut tree, from this tree they earn their Walnuts which they can use as Money.
Second, we saw the Berbers dance. I will tell you how they dance and what Music they do. When they dance, thei move up and down with their upper bodies and clapp in theior hands as the woman move slowsy, all in the same direction. As the woman dance, the men slapp on small hand drums with their hands And the womans sing to their takt with the men. Third, their clothing is also very traditional. Their traditional clothing is mostly made of a kind of wool for the womans, however, the men also wear the regular T-Shirts and Pants (Shorts) which we also wear. In conclusion, the berbers have many traditions and they believe in "Allah" which is god.

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COMPARING MOROCCAN FOOD TO GERMAN FOOD Myriel october 23 2009


Rabat is very different from the town where I lived in germany because the the food is very different. First, in Germany there are two special kinds of food that we can only buy in Germany. The first one of them is there is a special kind of bread that is called “Laugen”. The other food is a type of noodles which we can make at home but not buy in Morocco, they are called “spatzle” (they taste very good). In germany there are also many Apple, Plum, Cherry and Mirabelle Trees. That we can just eat when we walk by if the farmer is not on the field. I like the food in Germany more than the food in Morocco because my Mother doesn’t cook with much fat and she also doesn’t make meet a lot, but in Morocco they always cook meat and when i eat too much meat I get a Stomach-Ache. The Food is very different from Germany and Morocco however, I still like the German food more.

Animals I like

As we lived a few years in Germany, a friend from my dad asked him if we could buy a horse because he had one but he though that the horse needed a partner so we bought our first horse. He was big and his old owner had died a few weeks ago, so nobody had ridden him for about four years and we though that we would help him when we would buy him. The, our next problem was that he feared the trailer so dad rode him all the way home where he soon got friend with the other horse, now he is easy to ride and had also driven in a trailer. Now, I will tell you how we got to our other five horses. Soon after we bought the first horse (Donn Sisko) we all noticed that he was way too big for us children, so we bought another horse which was smaller and very nice, he was a brown Quarter-Horse gelding (Jeronimo). Later we wanted to ride out with the whole family which was impossible with only two horses so we mmade a pattern which was that we would buy a horse in one summer and in the other summer we would go to vacation until we had five horses (Donn Sisko, Jeronimo, Ortige, Patana, Raja Antares and Chellah). However, when we went to Morocco, we decided to leave the two old onse at home in Germany where my Aunt would take care of them. So, in Morocco I soon missed my left behind horse so much that my Parents decided to look for another horse, after we looked at about six horses we found a nice brown mare that we bought for 30000 DH. Finally, when our first year was ove our Aunt said that it was too much for her to do, so we took the horses to Morocco where we now have six horses which is a lot of fun but of course also a lot of work.
This is my horse story but I also like all other animals on earth.

About Myriel

I was born in Madagascar. I do not remember a lot about it, the only thing I remember is how our garden looked like. There were some Banana and some Apricot trees from which we got our desert in the time they were ready. In our garden were also some big sand pleces where Raphaela (my big sister), Jeschua (my little brother) and I used to play, next to it was the little border from our field, in this border lived a big beard spider. One day when we went out there to play we saw a tiny robins in the spiders net, my dad took it out and we made a little home for it in our sand place. After a couple of day it flew happily away. When I was three years old, my Parents decided to go back to germany, so we took our things together and flew back to Germany with the Air-Plain. After another seven happy years in germany, dad got a message from his Chef that he would get a job from the same firma in Morocco, he asked us if we would agree to go to Morocco and because we all though it would be a nich, new country to explore we said YES. Then, in Morocco I went to RAS where soon improved my english from a few words to a speakable language.

What i liked about Week Without Walls

Week Without Walls was fun however also a bit demanding. I really liked the trip in the High Atlas mountains. It was a lot of walking but it was also fun. As an example, on our second day we walked for about 7 hours, after the hike I was very tired, then, when I finally got into my sleeping bag, I soon slept and had a good but a little bit cold night. As another reason for why I liked Week Without Walls is that I really liked sleeping in the sleeping bags, however I didn't like that it was so cold at night and hot over the day, I also did not like the fact that we had tajine every day at dinner and also sometimes at Lunch, the apples and bananas for desert were delicous. I also liked the newspaper talent show.