Moroccan Bread Baking: The Village Oven Experience

Bread, the Village Oven
and the Hands That Make It

What you bake

How the morning runs

You are welcomed with tea, and then the flour comes out. Everything is done by hand and by feel, because nobody here weighs anything: you are taught to judge the dough the way your host was taught by her mother. The kneading takes longer than people expect and is where most of the laughing happens. While the dough rests you press your own mark into each loaf, so you can recognise it later.

What you eat afterwards

Where it happens

What it costs, and who it suits

From 45 euros per person in Marrakech and from 65 in the Atlas, including transport, ingredients and the meal. It suits families particularly well, because children can do every part of it, and it suits anyone who wants an hour inside a Moroccan home rather than in front of one. The money goes directly to the household that hosts you.