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Fassi Layered Bread

Thin sheets of dough layered with ghee and herbs, baked in a tannour, a staple of Fessi home cooking.

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In Fes's oldest bakery, a baker stretches dough like silk, his hands moving in a dance passed down through generations. 'Trid,' he says, 'is memory in bread form.' Each layer whispers of Andalusian exiles who brought this art to Morocco's spiritual capital. When baked, it crackles like ancient manuscripts. For Fassis, trid symbolizes resilience - how exile transformed into home, how fragile layers hold centuries of history. At family gatherings, it's broken together, each piece a shared story, each crumb a link to the past.

Fassi Layered Bread belongs to the Fès-Meknès table. Taste it where its Fassi urban heritage kitchen tradition lives, or fold it into an itinerary through the region.

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