Enjoy a private and authentic cooking class in a local Casablanca home with your host Maria. This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. You will be picked up from your Casablanca hotel and driven to your cooking class which takes place in a local home kitchen. Maria will teach you 2-3 traditional Moroccan dishes from her family recipes. After cooking, you will enjoy your meal together. Growing up in a large Moroccan family required you to help around in the kitchen, and that is how Maria learned to cook. She fondly remembers her grandmother teaching her family recipes and classics like lamb tagine with cardoon during Maria's school vacation. Maria recently retired and uses her time to pursue her passion for cooking and sharing her culture and cuisine with guests from all over the world. Immerse yourself in authentic Moroccan food and culture during this fun food experience with a lovely local.
Pickup included
This is a unique opportunity to visit the home of a local and explore traditional culture and cuisine. Your host Maria picks you up from your Casablanca hotel and brings you to her home kitchen for an authentic hands-on Moroccan cooking experience. Learn to cook family recipes of authentic Moroccan dishes like wild chicken tagine and harira (Moroccan soup) or chickpea and couscous salad during your cooking lesson that lasts about an hour. After cooking, sitting down at the dining table to enjoy the dishes you helped prepare with Maria. Your meal also include other dishes prepared by Maria in advance like pastille (spiced meat pie) and concludes with a sweet dessert. Maria lives in a modern, luxurious villa in a gated community, in a Casablanca suburb. She welcomes you with Moroccan mint tea and as you sip on the aromatic beverage, she shares more about life in Morocco, its history, culture and cuisine. What better way to get to know a country than through its welcoming locals! You will be dropped off at your hotel at the end of your in-home cultural and culinary experience.
Classic Moroccan tomato, lentil and chickpea soup
Moroccan meat pie, filled with spiced meat and apricots
Choose to be picked up from a list of locations
You will be picked up from the concierge desk of your hotel and dropped off at the end of your private, cultural and culinary experience with Maria.
Local contact information: If you need assistance, please contact your host Maria at +212 (0) 661065066, or by email at [email protected] Address: Résidence les chalets de bouskoura, Villa 16 Meeting Instructions: Meet Maria at her home, here is a Google maps link to her location: https://goo.gl/maps/NjXDAadgPTP2. Notes: If you have any specific dietary requirements and have not provided this information upon checkout, please contact and inform your Traveling Spoon host at least 48 hours in advance via their email or phone listed above in your voucher. Maria can offer vegetarian and halal meals on request. -- Traveling Spoon is a supplier of Viator and TripAdvisor. We offer travelers authentic food experiences with locals, in their homes. Founded by two travelers and food lovers, Traveling Spoon helps others make meaningful cultural connections through food. Contact us at [email protected] if you have general questions about our services. For specific questions related to your booking please contact your host directly with the contact information provided above. We hope you have a meaningful experience and look forward to hearing about it!