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A dear friend gave to me a really nice hand hammered, tin lined tagine from Williams Sonoma and so now I need recommendation for a tagine cookbook. It's been awhile since I made some couscous.
I was attending the Sorbonne University at the time. It was this time of year when I was invited by a friend Mohammed to spend the holidays with his family in Algiers in North Africa just after Christmas and through New Years of all things 1973 going into 1974. Mechoui fell upon the season and in the courtyard throughout that day for the celebration we butchered several muttons and feasted on freshly grilled meat of same along with couscous. Mmmmmm.
In the central courtyard and with its legs bound together, the mutton's throat was cut with blood flowing onto the bricks and the legs kicking up until the last breath expired when the animal fell silent and limp. Gruesome to all of you Westerners and Christians, Eid el fetr is a tradition handed down from when the Archangel Gabriel placed a mutton in exchange for his son at the time of sacrifice. And not being Moslem, there is some confusion on my part at the time between these two celebrations and what I experienced during the beginning of 1974.
Freshly butchered mutton is quite a treat.
I was attending the Sorbonne University at the time. It was this time of year when I was invited by a friend Mohammed to spend the holidays with his family in Algiers in North Africa just after Christmas and through New Years of all things 1973 going into 1974. Mechoui fell upon the season and in the courtyard throughout that day for the celebration we butchered several muttons and feasted on freshly grilled meat of same along with couscous. Mmmmmm.
In the central courtyard and with its legs bound together, the mutton's throat was cut with blood flowing onto the bricks and the legs kicking up until the last breath expired when the animal fell silent and limp. Gruesome to all of you Westerners and Christians, Eid el fetr is a tradition handed down from when the Archangel Gabriel placed a mutton in exchange for his son at the time of sacrifice. And not being Moslem, there is some confusion on my part at the time between these two celebrations and what I experienced during the beginning of 1974.
Freshly butchered mutton is quite a treat.
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