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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 438269, member: 2844&quot;]I agree, a teapot from Morocco or neighbouring countries. I don&#039;t know about any silver plating, since they are put on the fire. They are called berrad.</p><p><br /></p><p>A Moroccan friend used a berrad for Moroccan mint tea. She would stuff what looked like half a fresh mint bush in that little pot belly, on top of some steeped green tea, and top it up with water and bring it to the boil.</p><p>The procedure is slightly more complex, but this is it in a nutshell. It was a hospitality ritual which she treated with the utmost respect. Her family was originally from Marrakesh, where tradition is important.</p><p><br /></p><p>About the languages, when she went to school in Morocco in the 60s the lessons were in French in the morning, in the afternoon she would get the same lessons in Arabic.</p><p>Rather cumbersome, but it explains why many Moroccans with some schooling are proficient in both languages. If they are Berber/Tamazight, they will likely speak one of the Berber/Amazigh languages as well.</p><p>I don&#039;t know if they still teach school this way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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