Ramadan begins this Monday, March 11 for more than 5 million French people.
A time of prayer and abstinence, where believers celebrate the revelation of the Koran to the Prophet Muhammad, the holy month of Muslims is also, for many faithful, synonymous with a feast of taste buds.
At ftour time, the dinner marking the breaking of the fast, families, neighbors and friends gather around generous tables.
“It’s like Christmas but for a month,” summarizes chef Abdel Alaoui, famous for the dishes he prepares live for the guests of “C à vous”, on France 5.
This native of Oujda, in the north-east of Morocco, is full of tasty anecdotes linked to Ramadan.
Memories that take us from his parents' apartment, in the ZUP of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines), where he continues to make kilos of oriental pastries each year which he shares with his five brothers and sisters , to the teeming souks of Marrakech.
A great lover of the cuisine of his native country, to which he has already devoted two books, Abdel Alaoui tells us what constitutes for him the salt of these thirty days of a thousand and one flavors.
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