All Maghreb and Nile Valley Cuisines

Gathers the cuisines of the countries along the southern Mediterranean shore of Africa and the Nile valley, where wheat, couscous, olive oil, legumes, preserved lemons and spice mixtures are common. It covers North African cuisine as a regional whole together with Moroccan, Egyptian, Tunisian and Algerian cuisines. It is the only group under the Northern African Cuisines subcategory, and every entry of that subcategory is placed in it.