A Moroccan Feast

• recipe

  Moroccan Chicken with Olives and Lemon (Chicken Tagine)

  Time-consuming techniques and esoteric ingredients make cooking authentic Moroccan chicken a daunting proposition. We had one hour and supermarket staples.

• recipe

  Basic Couscous

  Back-of-the-package instructions may be simple, but too often they yield a tasteless, soggy mess. To cook couscous properly, we had to think outside the box.

• recipe

  Preserved Lemons

  Many Moroccan recipes call for preserved (pickled) lemons—we uncover the secret to making them at home. 

• equipment

  Compost Buckets

  Compost buckets offer a “green” way to deal with the odor of food scraps mingling in the kitchen trash.

• equipment

  Steamer Baskets

  Can new, innovative steamer baskets perform the simplest function: steaming?