At a small periodic market, or suq, in the High Atlas mountains, a doughnut maker is pulling one of his doughnuts (which are known in Morocco by the French name, beignets) out of the hot oil. As people at the market take a break, they come here for a beignet and have a cup of mint tea as well. You can see several people gathered on benches in the background.

Of interest here is the construction of the beignet man's stove. It is a hearth of tamped earth into which brush and small fire logs are put in one side and a smoke-hole allows smoke out the other end.

The beignet mans sits on one side of it. The mound remains here during the week, when there is no one and no activity at the site. Like the rest of the market, it comes alive just one day a week. His vat of cooking oil sits over the stove on a bunch of hot rocks. It's all very rudimentary; a very ancient way of cooking.