Kitty Morse was born in Casablanca, of a French mother and British father, and emigrated to the United States in 1964. She returns frequently to Morocco to spend time at her family's riad, Dar Zitoun, the subject of her latest book, Mint Tea and Minarets: a banquet of Moroccan memories.Kitty's career as a food writer, cooking teacher, and lecturer, spans more than twenty-five years. She is the author of nine cookbooks, five of them on the cuisine of Morocco and North Africa. They include Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen now in its tenth printing from Chronicle Books, The Scent of Orange Blossoms (Ten Speed Press), and The California Farm Cookbook (Pelican Publishing).In recent years, she became author/publisher for the second edition of A Biblical Feast: Ancient Mediterranean Flavors for Today's Table.Her latest book, a memoir titled Mint Tea and Minarets: a banquet of Moroccan memories, she published in December 2012. The book was a finalist in the San Diego Book Awards in 2012, and awarded Best Book Arab Cuisine/USA/ 2013 from the Gourmand World Cookbooks Awards.