On the road: Butchery and beauty in a Moroccan medina - Africa, Travel - The Independent
On the journey to Bab Boujeloud, the taxi driver proudly points out McDonald's to me. But I'm here to take photos for Fez's Café Clock's new cookery book: camel burgers rather than Big Macs. It is suggested that I might want to go to the abattoir to take pictures of the last camel slaughter before Eid al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice. I turn down the opportunity.
It's hard, however, to escape a rather visceral connection to slaughter in Fez's beautiful medina. It is traditional that every family should have a sheep for the festival, kept at home and then butchered. There are sheep in carts, sheep being dragged by their horns, sheep on people's backs, a sheep that emerges from the boot of a Mercedes. This is Morocco's most religious city, and they commemorate Abraham's willingness to kill his son with gusto.
On the road: Butchery and beauty in a Moroccan medina - Africa, Travel - The Independent
It's hard, however, to escape a rather visceral connection to slaughter in Fez's beautiful medina. It is traditional that every family should have a sheep for the festival, kept at home and then butchered. There are sheep in carts, sheep being dragged by their horns, sheep on people's backs, a sheep that emerges from the boot of a Mercedes. This is Morocco's most religious city, and they commemorate Abraham's willingness to kill his son with gusto.
On the road: Butchery and beauty in a Moroccan medina - Africa, Travel - The Independent
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