The best new holidays in Morocco {foods}


Tagine cookery class, Marrakech 
Urban Adventures has launched short tours in more than 80 cities around the world, where locals take visitors off the beaten track for a few hours. On the Tagine Cookery Class you have a short Arabic lesson to learn the words for key ingredients, go to the souk to shop for fresh produce, have a hands-on cookery lesson, then eat your salads, tagines and couscous for lunch.
• £36 for a four-hour class, 
Berber lunch, Imlil
The Atlas village of Imlil is the centre of Moroccan mountain tourism and the starting point of many treks. Fleewinter's new day trek is designed to get people into the mountains for a taste of real village life. The highlight is lunch with a Berber family, overlooking one of the valleys. Mules will carry your bags and children.
• Prices vary depending on size of the group
Culinary tour, multi-location
Trip Feast specialises in cultural tours with a culinary slant. On the new Exotic Flavours of Morocco trip, you'll make bread and other Fassi specialities in Fez and sample wine in Meknes. You'll meet olive growers and honey producers in rural villages on the way to Marrakech, where you'll go spice shopping, have cookery lessons, sample street food and eat in a hidden palace restaurant. Accommodation is in four-star riads and kasbahs.
• £1,295pp for eight days excluding flights, or £1,595 with flights, including breakfast and some other meals, departing 10 November or 23 March