Grilled Sheep’s Head

If you pass by the Bab Sensla in the town centre, you will notice round bake houses made of limestone and earth. Shut up inside them are dozens of sheep’s heads, cleaned in salt water, sheared and singed, split in half with an axe as far as the neck which still unites the two parts when the brain has been taken out.

The oven is heated in the evening, the opening blocked by a mess of mud and grass, and the heads are left to cook till the next morning, a thick layer of grass alternati