February Spice It Up, Coronado!

A Moroccan style Spice It Up, Coronado! with guest speaker, Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen author, Kitty Morse. We will be exploring Moroccan recipes using the spice cumin and how to make preserved lemons, an essential ingredient in Moroccan kitchens. Kitty will be giving a presentation on Tagines: A History at our zoom meeting.  

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Preserving lemons can take at least 4 weeks to finish, so get started today! Click HERE to follow Kitty Morse's demonstration of her great-grandmother's recipe for preserving lemons. There is NO GOOD COMMERCIAL source of preserved lemons and they are Kitty's trademark.

Kitty Morse was born in Casablanca of a French mother and British father and came to the United States in 1964. She obtained her Master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Kitty’s career as author, and food and travel writer, spans more than twenty-five years. Once a food columnist for the Los Angeles Times, Kitty has written for Bon Appétit, Fine Cooking, Sunset, and Eating Well, among numerous publications. Food etc, her weekly series, ran for a year on the first cable network in Coronado. She introduced travelers to Morocco’s cuisine and culture in 1983 with the first of her 23 annual tours to Morocco.

Kitty is the author of ten cookbooks and a memoir, Mint Tea and Minarets: A Banquet of Moroccan Memories, named Best Book/Arab Cuisine by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Her best-selling Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes From My Moroccan Kitchen, is in its tenth printing from Chronicle Books. For more information, and to sign up for The Kasbah Chronicles, Kitty’s monthly e-newsletter, visit: 

https://KittyMorse.com/

See photographs and recipes from participant's dishes from past months HERE

Programs are made possible by the Friends of the Coronado Public Library.