العادات الغذائية للمغاربة في العصر الوسيط

الملخص EN

Food habits are linked in one way or another to geography, which plays an important role in the stability or the change of these habits.

The research done so far has drawn a nutritional map characterized by great differences in terms of foods and drinks and the ways of their use and preparation.

This is because Morocco is diverse on more than one level geographically, ethnographically and economically.

The people of the cities eat bread, the people of the Atlas eat porridge, the people of the north prefer olive oil, while the people of the south prefer argan oil.

In the same context, these researches proved that the food security of Moroccans during the Middle Ages was permanently subject to bad climatic and technical conditions, which made him resort to types of compensatory foods because of the stings of hunger.

Food habits are the result of behaviour with natural, economic, social and mental determinants.

Related to the spatial variation and climatic disturbances that produced a map of tastes in a time of prosperity and dishes of necessity, “a time of distress.

” The security and stability of the state had a role in shaping the food habit.

It was constantly controlling activities directly related to food production, storage and marketing, and the disruptionb of its power influences dietary behaviour.

In this regard, it is necessary to suggest some determinants that would frame my intervention, which are: Where is the geography's part in the formation of habit ? And where does the portion of history appear?