In December 2020, a rare moment of North African unity took place when Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania successfully submitted a joint application to inscribe couscous on Unesco's Intangible ...

In 2016, Algeria announced that it would be applying for UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage status for couscous. If successful, the staple food would join a diverse list of more than 500 cultural ...

Morocco’s medieval culinary tradition reveals couscous recipes far more diverse than today’s familiar version, ranging from fava-bean couscous and turnip-green couscous to preparations made from bread ...

To those who have never seen it, couscous may look like chicken feed. But once they taken a bite of this tiny, grain-shaped pasta, even the most skeptical connoisseurs will have a hint of its larger ...

Couscous, the Berber dish beloved across North Africa’s Maghreb region and beyond — including in Israel, where many citizens have roots in that region — joined the UN list of the world’s intangible ...

In 2016, Algeria announced that it would be applying for UNESCO status for couscous. If successful, the staple food would join a diverse list of more than 500 cultural treasures ranging from hand ...

Couscous, a North African dish, looks like a fine-grain cereal. But it is more like pasta–a blend of flour or semolina and water that is shaped by hand or machine into pellets. There is an instant ...