Moroccan Honey

Not much going on today but it is a beautiful day so we thought we would set out for the Medina in search of honey. I read an article in the New York Times a while ago about a honey dealer that was supposed to be quite good (you can read the article here).

And just for the record, in case anyone reads this and decides to try and find it, the directions in the NYT article were a little off. But it is still very easy to find. Just take a taxi to Bab Boujlod and enter from there. Once you enter the Medina, take the first left then your first right and you will be on Talaa Kbira. You will go past some rather interesting shops on this street. The first section has a lot of butchers where you can get meat and see some interesting things. For instance, we passed by one shop that had a camel head hanging right out front.

Keep going down Talaa Kbira until you get to Ain Zliten square on your left. Then 50 to 100 meters past that on your left will be an archway that leads to Fondouk Kaat Smen and the first honey dealer you come to is the one mentioned in the article.

Once there he let us sample some of the varieties of honey he had available. In the back room there were blue vats of honey that we were able to try. We tried lavender, orange, rosemary, fig and eucalyptus honey but my favorite was lavender.

Then getting the honey was fairly simple, but perhaps a bit unsanitary. The shop owner just took a pan, scooped it out of the vat, wiped the pan off with his hand, then poured it into a container for weighing.