Kabyle cooking has lost many of its recipes. Some peasant families nevertheless retained its original character, its basic philosophy, its own identity, despite decisive contributions from universal cuisine. Cereals, vegetables, grass, milk and olive oil,…
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If there’s one couscous that deserves to be called “royal couscous”, it’s couscous with cardoons. This exclusively Kabyle dish has acquired its letters of nobility, copied and imitated but never equalled !Serves for 4, Cook…
The living legend of world football, the Frenchman of Kabyle origin Zinedine Zidane, has once again made a small reference to his homeland. Or to be more precise, his parents’ homeland, Kabylia. In an interview…
COUSCOUS – MAGHREB – UNESCO: WHICH GAME ARE THE FRENCH PLAYING? UNESCO, acronym for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, is a specialized agency in the United Nations (UN), established November 16, 1945,…
by Bill Weinberg All Saints Ukrainian Church on East 11th Street, with its colorful mosaic facade, was the unlikely venue on Saturday Jan. 16 for the metro area Berber community’s celebration of their traditional new…
The Amazigh (Berber) origin of the word couscous does not make any doubt, even if its exact formation has some darknesses. Indeed, the term, in the base form seksu (and various local phonetic alternatives) is…
Amenzu tefsoutt, the first days of spring, is originally a pagan celebration of fertility. They say that in the past couple went to the fields to make love, while the grass was not yet high….
Kabylsk matlaging har mistet mange av sine oppskrifter. Noen bondefamilier beholdt likevel sin opprinnelige karakter, dens grunnleggende filosofi, sin egen identitet, til tross for avgjørende bidrag fra det universelle kjøkkenet. Korn, grønnsaker, gress, melk og…
Når noen spør meg hva er Kabylia, svarer jeg at Kabylia er et fjell… Et bebodd fjell…