Derb 37

The late night plate

moroccan

After everything is cleaned up and the house is quiet. Bread, olive oil, a handful of olives, maybe some cheese.

The olive oil is from a farm in the Haouz — green, peppery, strong enough that bread and oil is a complete meal. The olives are the cracked ones with preserved lemon and herbs. The bread is whatever is left from the day.

The meal that gets eaten the most and the one nobody sees.