Couscous ( or ) ( Berber: Seksu ) is a North African Berber dish of semolina traditionally served with a meat or vegetable stew spooned over it.

Couscous is a staple food throughout Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya.

Couscous is or in the United Kingdom and only the latter in the United States.

Couscous was taken from Syria to Turkey in the 16th century and is eaten in most of the southern provinces.

Couscous in Tunisia is served on every occasion ; it is also served sweetened as dessert called masfouf, mostly during Ramadan.

Couscous is also very popular in France, where it is now considered a traditional dish, and has also become popular in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece.

Couscous is among the healthiest grain-based products.

Couscous is one of the most popular Berber North African dishes globally.

The best-known North African / Berber dish abroad is surely Couscous.

Couscous is a Maghrib staple.

Couscous was originally made from millet.

Couscous was traditionally made from the hard part of the durum, the part of the grain that resisted the grinding of the relatively primitive millstone.

* Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco, by: Paula Wolfert, Gael Greene ISBN 0-06-091396-7

Couscous was elected as the third favorite dish of French people in 2011 in a study by TNS Sofres for magazine Vie Pratique Gourmand and the first in East of France.

Couscous was known to the Nasrid royalty in Granada as well.

Couscous seems to have a North African origin.

* Mediterranean and World Cuisine: Couscous: History of Couscous by Clifford A. Wright

* Saudi Aramco World article on Couscous: Couscous — The Measure of the Maghrib.

* Magharebia. com: News and Views of the Maghreb article on Couscous: Couscous: Long-Term Maghreb Staple Still Going Strong

Among the most famous Moroccan Berber dishes are Couscous, Pastilla ( also spelled Bsteeya or Bestilla ), Tajine, Tanjia and Harira.

Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous: my search for Jewish cooking in France.

Some of the characters first appeared in the Couscous Express.

William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.

One reason is, of course, that the new scepticism has been willing to maintain the general picture of the invasions as portrayed in the traditional sources.

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

Rexroth is a longtime jazz buff, a name-dropper of jazz heroes, and a student of traditional as well as modern jazz.

Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.

Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.

The paper has a certain value as a comparatively easy introduction to this approach, particularly since it treats a fairly simple and straightforward phenomenon where it is possible to compare it with a more traditional ( though not structural ) statement.

What is left to traditional systems of philosophy is, in effect, only the history of these fields prior to their becoming rigorous enough to abide by the canons of scientific method.

This explanation is attractive, but is vitiated at least in part by the observation that Cynewulf, though he used kennings in the traditional manner, was a literate man who four times inscribed his name by runes into his works.

A traditional Lao explanation is that the moon was being swallowed by a toad, and the remedy was to make all possible noise, ideally with firearms.

And the rebellion of these third generation Jews is not the traditional conflict of culture but, rather, a protest against a culture that they view as softly and insidiously enveloping.

This conclusion is dependent on the assumption that traditional sex mores will continue to sanction both premarital chastity as the `` ideal '', and the double standard holding females primarily responsible for preserving the ideal.

Gov. Vandiver is expected to make the traditional visit to both chambers as they work toward adjournment.

`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.

However, even if the latent demand for demythologization is not nearly as widespread as we are claiming, at least among the cultured elements of the population there tends to be an almost complete indifference to the church and its traditional message of sin and grace.

With traditional nationalistic spirit, some Englishmen claim that English Catholicism is Catholicism at its best.

The truth is that any revival of traditional and indigenous religion will serve to promote that sense of identity and Volksgeist which these young nations very much need.

The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.