I hope Nan sees your post, Chubby. She told me she was going to order it to take aboard ship (she usually takes one new cookbook on a voyage). Seven bucks sure beats 40 any day of the week. But I don't understand those used copies. This is one book I'll never give up.
Let me now put in a plug from the shameless commerce division. Anybody ordering books (or anything else) from Amazon should first go over to the ChefTalk site (
ChefTalk - Cooking Forums, Cook Book Review, Cooking Articles and Recipes by the chefs), open the forums, and use the direct link to Amazon from there. By doing so, ChefTalk earns a few pennies, and I get paid for being the reviews editor. A good deal for everyone!
Cathy, I've always had a casual interest in North Africa, as an outgrowth of my interest in Mid-Eastern and Turkish cooking (and, especially, the Turkish culinary influence on the whole region). It's only been the past two or three years that I've had a passion for Morrocan, though.
But you know what they say: Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.