Morocco grew up in
Newton, Massachusetts and attended
Newton South High School. After graduating from high school, he took a gap year before attending
Oberlin College where he majored in French and worked as a cook at
Pyle Inn. After graduation, Morocco worked at
Vogue as a production manager, before taking classes at the
French Culinary Institute and being hired to work in the test kitchen at
Bon Appétit. He left the magazine to work for the editorial department of
Real Simple, before returning to
Bon Appétit as the magazine's deputy food editor. ==Career==