Moroccan Cooking Class in the Medina of Marrakech

Our market guide and the actual chefs were very young teenagers and less than organized. Lack of utensils during meal prep i.e. a plate or a knife made cutting vegetables and lamb that we bought from the market ourselves very difficult. My boyfriend was actually showing them how to chop food safely. Lamb tagine was undercooked ... but the best part was when they attempted to collect payment at the end of the class. They seemed confused about whether we'd already paid and tried to insist that we needed to give them cash instead of the Viator voucher.

Great class to educate us on the art of tagine making. You get to buy your vegetables in the market first and head over to a medina rooftop to make your juice and tagine. But you don't get the chance to actually make the food. You do the chopping and the chef does the seasoning and cooking.

This is a nice experience. You get to walk around the souks purchasing the foods you're going to eat later, which is interesting and fun except that our guide taking us through the souks communicated with us very little if at all. So he didn't explain to us why he was buying what he was buying or why he was buying it where he was buying it, for how much, what the exchange was with the vendor, etc. We just sort of followed him around on his shopping trip. He also kept dropping us off at spice vendors for demonstrations, which, if you've spent any time in Morocco at all you've done a million times and it gets obscenely frustrating: there's only so much black cumin you can begrudgingly buy before it starts to make you hate your choice in vacation destination. The cooking itself was fun, but if you're hoping to be the one monitoring the tagine on the stove or doing the incredibly hands-on work be warned - you won't get that experience. Essentially you are a vegetable slicer. But regardless, it is fun and the meal turns out quite nice. Overall I'd recommend if you have an empty morning and nothing else to do.