Sixty-three-year-old French cook Christian Falco grilled a 1,213 pound camel for 15 hours at a seaside Moroccan town south of Rabat, to earn a spot in the Guinness Book for the world's largest barbecue.

Falco said he did the feat to revive a tradition centuries ago when Moroccan kings offered a roast camel for the people.

He said, "It's a tradition that's fallen out of favor. I brought it back."

The French cook already holds six Guinness world records for spit-roasting the world's largest slab of beef, 985.5 kilos, in 1996.

The camel was roasted early Saturday using three tons of wood and 15 liters of oil to tenderize the camel meat.

On Saturday night, 500 people feasted on the barbecue at the seaside town of Safi, paying $19 for the barbecued camel.