looks good. a little cheese, a little flat bread, the perfect moroccan breakfast to go. we re headed into the jamala foothills of the mountain range, about 85 kilometers south of tangier in a place called shushucka. the village is home to the people of the all sharif tribe, which loosely translated means the saintly people. it s also home to one of morocco s better known musicians, bashir atar. rock n roll musicians have traveled all over the world to meet this guy. bashir is part of a lineage from master musicians, all from this mountain village.
famously dubbed as a 4,000-year-old rock band by william burrows, bashir, his son and these musicians maintain one of the oldest still musical traditions on earth. we re invited for dinner. it s family style, of course. beginning with a pocket. hand formed and loads of dough with seasoned beef, baked until golden and crisped in oil. one more. mm-mmm. uh-oh, here we go. the main event. tangine of chicken.