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Eating Casablanca one market stall at a time
Based in Marche Central, Casablanca, Morocco.
Marta moved from Barcelona to cook in Casablanca and stayed to write, and she spends most mornings at the Marche Central and the fish stalls behind the port. She covers grilled-sardine carts, Habous pastry counters and the Franco-Moroccan dining rooms of Gauthier with equal attention.
How to buy a fish by weight, have it grilled ten metres away and eat for under 100 dirhams in the middle of downtown Casablanca, with the renovation works, the dust and the closed days all accounted for.
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