Berber Cooking Class at a Farm in the Countryside & shopping at a rural Souk.

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7 hours
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1 - 8 guests
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English, French, Arabic
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Join us for a unique Berber Cooking Class set in Morocco's Haha region. Learn traditional recipes from local women, explore a rural souk, and discover Argan oil production.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

The cooking class is offered in the beautiful Haha-region 35 km south of Essaouira. This is the land of the Berbers, Morocco’s indigenous population. The Berbers of the Haha hills cultivate crops and keep animals, mainly goats and sheep.

We visit a local souk featuring freshly harvested fruit and vegetables, in addition to meat, eggs, honey – in short, all the staples for daily living, including the essential ingredients for our Berber cooking class.

The class takes place at an ecological farm, centred around an authentic Berber kitchen stocked with traditional items for food preparation.

Khadija and Khadija, two lovely local women, show you how they roast barley grains on the fire, and then grind them in a stone mill to produce the flour and semolina used as the basis for traditional flat bread and couscous. We bake flat bread in a clay oven and steam couscous in a traditional clay pot.

We learn to make a traditional tagine of vegetables and goat meat with Moroccan spices and olive oil – oil derived from the olive trees growing on the farm.

Depending on the weather, lunch is served outside if at all possible. Eating in beautiful, calm and natural surroundings is a special event. Following the meal, we enjoy tea infused with fresh herbs from the garden.

As we will be driving through the Argan zone, you have the option to visit an Argan oil cooperative and learn about the production of this beautiful oil - in all the world, a product unique to this area. They will offer us a taste of the lovely things they make with it, too.

Very likely you will see the famous goats in the trees on this tour to the south of Essaouira.

Sample Menu

MAIN
Tagine
Tagine, in the earthy stewed pot, a Tagine is created again and again depending on the season
MAIN
couscous
Homemade barley couscous
MAIN
loaf
Homemade bread from the wood-fired oven.

What You Get

Private transportation
Lunch
Tea and coffee
Coffee and/or Tea

Good To Know

  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Specialized infant seats are available
  • Service animals allowed

What You’ll Experience

The cooking class is offered in the beautiful Haha-region 35 km south of Essaouira. This is the land of the Berbers, Morocco’s indigenous population. The Berbers of the Haha hills cultivate crops and keep animals, mainly goats and sheep. We visit a local souk featuring freshly harvested fruit and vegetables, in addition to meat, eggs, honey – in short, all the staples for daily living, including the essential ingredients for our Berber cooking class. The class takes place at an ecological farm, centred around an authentic Berber kitchen stocked with traditional items for food preparation. Khadija and Khadija, two lovely local women, show you how they roast barley grains on the fire, and then grind them in a stone mill to produce the flour and semolina used as the basis for traditional flat bread and couscous. We bake flat bread in a clay oven and steam couscous in a traditional clay pot. We learn to make a traditional tagine of vegetables and goat meat with Moroccan spices and olive oil – oil derived from the olive trees growing on the farm. Depending on the weather, lunch is served outside if at all possible. Eating in beautiful, calm and natural surroundings is a special event. Following the meal, we enjoy tea infused with fresh herbs from the garden. As we will be driving through the Argan zone, you have the option to visit an Argan oil cooperative and learn about the production of this beautiful oil - in all the world, a product unique to this area. They will offer us a taste of the lovely things they make with it, too. Very likely you will see the famous goats in the trees on this tour to the south of Essaouira.

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

Labo Abdelkrim Khatabi d'Analyses Médicales, Rue Oued El Makhazine, Essaouira Marrakech-Safi, Morocco, MA, 44000

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Laboratory Abdelkrim Khattabi, near Bab Marrakech
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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What People Are Saying
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Cultural and culinary highlight
May 19, 2025
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We had a wonderful day and felt very well received in the family. The day passed far too fast. We will not forget the warm atmosphere in the family and the delicious food.

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A great experience for the whole family
May 13, 2025
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We took part in the cookery course as a family. Our boys (5 years old, 8 and 10) were able to join in a lot and were just as enthusiastic as we were. We made couscous ourselves, ground flour, baked...read more

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Unique, natural, authentic!
May 12, 2025
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We got the chance to bake bread with a Berber family, make couscous and flour from barley, buy vegetables and herbs at the market and prepare a tajine, cook. Also it had goats and sheep that we cou...read more

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A real highlight
April 30, 2025
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It was our absolute highlight of our trip! Such a warm Berber family - my children and I enjoyed it incredibly and took a lot with us. I would also like to highlight the tour guide (Claudia) and ...read more

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Not suitable for large groups
April 28, 2025
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We were with our company (17 people) at Berberlands and participated in a cooking class. We particularly liked the tour of the market, where we bought fresh vegetables and meat together for later c...read more

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