Amazigh Foodways

Indigenous

The foodways of Amazigh (Berber) peoples of North Africa, recorded in their own right.

Atlas — where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Amazigh community documented

Related foodways

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • originates from Couscous documented

    ⚠ The word is Amazigh (seksu) and the dish is older than Arabic in North Africa. UNESCO inscribed it in 2020 as a JOINT nomination by Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia — shared, with national forms.

  • part of Amazigh Foodways of Morocco documented

    ⚠ The indigenous people of North Africa, predating every state in it. Filed under the Amazigh root, not under a national cuisine.

  • related to Western Desert Oasis Foodways documented

    ⚠ SIWI IS THE EASTERNMOST BERBER LANGUAGE, spoken some seven hundred kilometres from any other Amazigh community. Siwa is not Arabic-speaking in origin.

Regional cuisines

Recipes

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