World on Your Plate: North African

On Saturday 31 July Algerian and Moroccan cuisine was a delight for the senses in the Museum Atrium — coriander, cumin, saffron, marjoram and onion scents mingled with the pungency of olive oil to tantalise visitors tastebuds as they sipped mint tea and sampled the best of North African cuisine. Chef Makh Benyettou, of Sahaa Restaurant, demonstrated his fabulous 'fig couscous' and 'couscous royale' dishes. Belly dancer, Candice Frankland, enthralled visitors with her graceful movements to the Arabian beats of North Africa. See Makh's recipe for fig couscous on the Kai to Pie blog http://blog.aucklandmuseum.com/category/kai-to-pie/. For more info about the Kai to Pie exhibition check out http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/kaitopie .

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Entertainment

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• World on Your Plate
• North African Day
• Kai to Pie
• Auckand Museum

[dmays67]

This unfortunately comes across as something I would expect to see on an in-flight advert entering NZ about how we 'embrace other cultures'. I LOVE international cuisines and particularly that of Morocco (hell I love cooking full stop!) but this, this lacked passion! Maybe I have missed the point but this was people sharing their culture and it needed to pump! I kept waiting for it to kick in and hear the guys raving about what they were preparing! And the audience responding! WTF?