Introduction

Moro was born out of a desire to cook within the wonderful tradition of the Mediterranean, but with a need to explore new and exciting flavours. A fascination with Islam and a love of Spain and its people drew us to these less familiar areas of the Mediterranean. Linked in history by the Moors’ 700-year occupation of Spain (from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries), the two spheres of cooking are connected by what we call the saffron-cinnamon link (Spain and the Muslim Mediterranean). We took the name Moro from the Spanish word for Moor, ‘el Moro’, which in itself is derived from the ancient Greek ‘Mauros’ meaning eastern.