2007 Saffron harvest
The week was beautiful in Taliwine. Bilal was working with a 2M team shooting a reportage for Toubkal, and ourselves, after heavy and delicious beginnings in Marrakech (tanjia, pastilla, figues tajine...) were pursuing our tour focused on "learning Moroccan cooking", with the objective of taking part in the harvest.
Agriculture and weather don't care of tourism constraints, and the fields were we intended to work displayed only a few flowers. The first day was spent into visiting the area and looking for blooming fields. There were some in Tinfert and in the direction to Askaoun, it was finally on one of these haut-plateaux that we came back on the morrow, kindly welcomed by a family of three producers, whose kindness warmed more than our fingers that were suffering from the cold before sun rise.
The end of our three days was marked by an exceptionnal mechwui (roasted mutton) prepared with saffron, in the kitchen of l'auberge du Safran, and savoured in the evening with the nce Mahfoud, who made our stay wonderful !
In the saffron fields at dawn
Agriculture and weather don't care of tourism constraints, and the fields were we intended to work displayed only a few flowers. The first day was spent into visiting the area and looking for blooming fields. There were some in Tinfert and in the direction to Askaoun, it was finally on one of these haut-plateaux that we came back on the morrow, kindly welcomed by a family of three producers, whose kindness warmed more than our fingers that were suffering from the cold before sun rise.
Saffron flowers at dawn
The end of our three days was marked by an exceptionnal mechwui (roasted mutton) prepared with saffron, in the kitchen of l'auberge du Safran, and savoured in the evening with the nce Mahfoud, who made our stay wonderful !
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