Lentil Soup with Cumin

The first meal we ate on Moroccan soil was lentil soup. We had just taken the ferry from Algeciras to Tangiers and had arrived slightly weary and hungry from the day’s travelling. We soon stumbled across a dark room filled with a few tables and a few people who kept one eye on their food, the other on us. There was only one thing on offer – lentil soup. We sat down and were immediately presented with a bowl of this steaming soup, a dish of harissa, some juicy, oily black olives and a couple