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Samuel and Samantha Clark are married, are both known as Sam and met while working at the River Cafe in London.
Before opening their own place, they took three months off, drove a camper van from Spain through Morocco and on towards the Sahara, cooking and taking notes along the way. That journey is what the book is made of.
Moro opened in 1997 on Exmouth Market in Clerkenwell, a street nobody cared about at the time. The name is Spanish for Moor and points towards the cuisine shared by southern Spain and North Africa. Cumin, saffron, cinnamon in savoury dishes, preserved lemon, tahini and bread baked in a wood-fired oven.
They were also early in taking sherry seriously. Moro's list persuaded an entire generation of Britons to stop thinking of sherry as something their grandmother drank.
The book is still in print after more than 25 years, which in this business amounts to a verdict. The production is simple and the tone matter-of-fact, the exact opposite of how the subject is marketed today.
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 288
Language: English
First published: 2001
