Morocco (September, 2014) – Marrakech offered a surreal culinary experience; we spent the week indulging on amazing fresh fruits and unusual spices, lots of tajines, several pastilla, and an evening of gluttonous shashlik. My only disappointment was my own expectation due to a childhood Disney fantasy; Baloo's melodic lyrics describing the bare necessity of life. Prickly Pears while intoxicatingly beautiful, failed to deliver on taste.