Snails

In Morocco snails are called by the amusing name of boubbouches; they are not large and grey like the well-known ones from Burgundy, but of medium size, white encircled with black. You will savour them served hot or cold in pottery bowls, swimming in the fierce soup made from the liquor in which they have been cooked and which is supposed to whet the appetite, purify the blood and cure stomach-ache. To extract them use a simple wild acacia thorn.