Safi – Harvest Festival Marrakech and the Global Diversity Foundation have launched the first edition of “Tiwizi Week,” a new culinary program running June 26 to July 5, connecting the city’s restaurants with rural cooperatives in the mountains.
A market at the Culinary Arts Museum
The clearest stop for visitors is the “Tiwizi Market,” set for July 4-5 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Musée de l’Art Culinaire Marocain in the medina.
Ten cooperatives from the High Atlas will sell directly to the public: honey, oils, flour, grains, tea, amlou, jams, and cheese. Cooking classes with cooperative members run through the weekend, alongside tastings.
Restaurants across the city
The week’s organizers describe a programme of creative dishes, special dinners, hospitality, and storytelling at partner venues across Marrakech and beyond.
This event includes Dar Society, the riad Jnane Tamsna, Um Mami by Melting Pot, Mimti in Essaouira, and NBTA in Tangier.
An old idea of mutual aid
The week takes its name from tiwizi, sometimes spelled twiza, the Amazigh tradition of pooling labor for a harvest, a house, or any task too large for one family alone.
Harvest Festival Marrakech and the Global Diversity Foundation, which works with some 200 rural cooperatives across the High Atlas, are using that same logic to connect the mountains to the city’s tables.
For one week, the help that once passed between neighbors in the High Atlas is passing into Marrakech’s kitchens instead.
