{"id":394068,"date":"2010-03-05T14:21:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T19:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2010-03-05T14:21:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T19:21:46","slug":"couscous-it%e2%80%99s-about-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/394068","title":{"rendered":"Couscous! It\u2019s about time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2725\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 210px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2725\" title=\"FDcouscous0831a\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/03\/11-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Couscous prepared by Yves Samake of the Atlanta Ritz-Carlton\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Couscous prepared by Yves Samake of the Atlanta Ritz-Carlton<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Normally I prefer to not dwell on what Atlanta lacks in terms of food choice and instead go looking for what we have. But I have long decried the lack of a good French North African couscous meal.<\/p>\n<p>I know we have a couple of good Moroccan restaurants &#8212; <strong>Imperial Fez<\/strong> in Buckhead and <strong>Imane<\/strong> in Gwinnett County &#8212; that serve couscous. But a Moroccan meal can be kind of an event with the floor cushions, the eating with your fingers, the acrobatic green tea pouring, etc. It&#8217;s shebang-y.<\/p>\n<p>In France, couscous is a popular ethnic dish that cuts across economic levels. People may go out to a fun, slightly cheesy, super-cheap couscous restaurant the way we might go out for Mexican. Or a neighborhood bistro might serve couscous once a week as a special and use high quality meats for garnish in the spirit of fried chicken Tuesdays at Watershed. Or a Parisian might invite a bunch of people over for a couscous dinner at home the way a &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couscous prepared by Yves Samake of the Atlanta Ritz-Carlton Normally I prefer to not dwell on what Atlanta lacks in terms of food choice and instead go looking for what we have. But I have long decried the lack of a good French North African couscous meal. I know we have a couple of good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}