{"id":683919,"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.com\/index\/683919","title":{"rendered":"Couscous! It\u2019s about time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2725\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 210px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2725\" title=\"FDcouscous0831a\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/03\/11-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" 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":2574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RUX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}