Algeria
(Originally posted here. ) No last minute runs to Whole Foods this time. Hah! I win! Algeria Gained independence from France in 1962. Borders the Mediterranean Sea. 11th biggest country for land area, second largest in Africa. Only 3.17% of their land is arable and .28% is permanent crops. 34.5 million in population. 99% Sunni Muslim There are 90,000 refugees from Western Sahara in Algeria. Cuisine : Fusion of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern influences. National Dish : Couscous Sources: CIA Factbook and Algeria.com I was really hoping that my international cookbook would have a recipe for Algeria, since it has "Northern Africa" as an area for recipes. Nothing there, though. I'll let you know how the cookbook works when I can use it. Instead, I decided that wanted to make something with couscous since that was the Algerian national dish. So I started looking. I ran into some of the same problems as last time: I would find the exact...