
In Morocco, tagines usually simmer at length over a charcoal fire. The word tagine refers to the eponymous dish with a conical lid, as well as to the food that is cooked inside. For more than a year, she had a regular spot on California Heartland, a weekly, statewide series focusing on California’s agriculture.Ī resident of California, Kitty’s website is /

Her two-part series, Fresh from the Farm, which she produced and hosted in 1994, still airs on cable channels in San Diego County. She has been a guest on Sarah’s Secrets, hosted by Sarah Moulton of the Food Network all national affiliates in San Diego as well as Morocco’s national television and Baja, California’s (Mexico) Canal Azteca. Kitty has been a guest on public radio and has been interviewed a few times by the BBC. She also has spoken at The Book and the Cook event in Philadelphia been a featured presenter for the Chicago Culinarians the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books the City of Chicago the California Farm Conference the convention of the International Association of Culinary Professionals Kraft Foods USA the Golden Door Spa and, on three occasions at the Ahwahnee Hotel’s annual Chef’s Holiday in Yosemite National Park, as well as many other venues. She has lectured across the country, including twice at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. She organized and led annual tours to Morocco from 1983 until 2007, which included culinary demonstrations in her family home, a Moorish riad south of Casablanca. Kitty, whose mother was French and her father British, was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and moved to the United States when she was 17.



She currently is working on a memoir called Mint Tea and Minarets: A Memoir of Morocco with Recipes. She is the author of nine books: The Scent of Orange Blossoms: Sephardic Cuisine from Morocco Couscous: Fresh and Flavorful Contemporary Recipes Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen A Biblical Feast: Foods from the Holy Land A Biblical Feast: Ancient Mediterranean Flavors for Today’s Table The Vegetarian Table: North Africa Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion with Recipes 365 Ways to Cook Vegetarian and The California Farm Cookbook. She also is well regarded for her work in promoting seasonal cooking and responsible agriculture. Kitty Morse is a cookbook author, lecturer and expert on the cooking of North Africa, and Morocco in particular.
