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If your fate takes you one day to Morocco, as a tourist or resident, your visit or knowledge of the Kingdom and its people will not be complete unless you enjoy a cup of the famous Moroccan tea, with its distinctive foam, and embrace the smell of mint, to reserve a place in your aromatic memory, and then enjoy the sweetness of the taste.
Since tea entered the lives of Moroccans from the gates of the palaces of their sultans, and was established in their lives as a daily ritual, they assigned it a sacred status. The coffee pots were removed, and the refrigerator took their place. The sound of the first drops of tea hitting the bottoms of colored tea cups mixed with wedding songs, and tea became a symbol of generosity. Hospitality is so present that family gatherings are incomplete without a silver tea tray around which everyone gathers, where their stories are heard and their laughter is recorded. Thus, the Moroccans’ passion for tea reached such an extent that they wrote poetry and sang it, and it became a companion to their gatherings and times of solace and solace.
Returning to some historical stories that tell the story of this drink, the introduction of tea to the Kingdom, according to what Abdel Kabir Al-Fassi tells in the book “A Remembrance of the Benefactors of the Deaths of Notables and the Accidents of the Years,” is that Sultan Zaidan bin Ismail’s uncle was the first to taste this drink, after a doctor prescribed it to him. A Christian as a cure for an illness he suffered after drinking alcohol for many years.” Although determining the authenticity of this story is difficult, it corresponds from a chronological standpoint (chronology) and the stage in which tea found its way to Morocco. Tea entered Morocco as tea, and the Moroccans touched it. With their magic and adding their flavors to it, they produced “Atay” with its distinctive taste reserved for Morocco.(1)
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