
Moroccan Bean Soup 'Bissara' Gains Popularity as Healthy Winter Meal
Originally from the Maghreb, especially Morocco, bissara is the trendy soup of 2025. It owes its reputation to its many virtues.

Originally from the Maghreb, especially Morocco, bissara is the trendy soup of 2025. It owes its reputation to its many virtues.

With its medinas, souks, mountains and dunes, its cuisine and hammams, Morocco remains one of the most popular destinations for tourists. A Spaniard, who has already visited the kingdom countless times, explains why he has fallen in love with this neighboring country that he invites to discover.

Morocco is selected for the finals of three culinary competitions, namely the Bocuse d’Or, the World Pastry Cup, and the World Catering Cup, during the prestigious Sirha Show scheduled in Lyon from January 23 to 27.

The Grande Table marocaine, the flagship restaurant of the Royal Mansour Marrakech hotel, led by the multi-starred chef Hélène Darroze, and owned by King Mohammed VI, will set up in the kitchens of the Alpes les Airelles Courchevel palace in Savoy, to offer iconic Moroccan recipes.

In France, a nursing assistant of Moroccan origin working in a nursing home in the Hauts-de-Seine, is highlighting Moroccan cuisine to the point of winning a place as a finalist for the Île-de-France region and gaining popularity on social networks, especially on Instagram.

On YouTube and Tiktok, the French Michelin-starred chef Philippe Etchebest is under fire for his couscous recipe, an iconic North African dish, which has nothing to do with what is prepared in Morocco.

Moroccan cuisine was honored in Marrakech on the occasion of the Official African Chefs Tournament (TOC Africa). Morocco won the 2024 edition of the Bocuse d’Or Africa, a prestigious culinary competition.

Moroccan cuisine is shining in an international competition. It wins the title of the best cuisine in the world, ahead of France, India and Mexico.

According to a ranking by a British magazine, a Moroccan city is among the top 20 cities in the world where gastronomy is the best.
Suffocated by debt, a Moroccan and his associates of Dutch and Chinese nationalities are about to lose their property, the "The Red Sun" restaurant specializing in Asian cuisine in Marrakech. The establishment is up for auction.

Lively controversy in France over Kalb el-Iouz. Originally, the publication by the Carrefour hypermarket on social networks of a catalog presenting this dish with a map of Morocco, which aroused the anger of Algerian Internet users who denounce a plundering of the culinary heritage of their country.

While Algerians accused her of appropriating recipes from an Algerian chef and launched a boycott campaign against her, the Franco-Moroccan influencer Fatine El Bouni received massive support from the Moroccan community in Paris.