Tunisia Cookbook

This comprehensive guide to the great range of Tunisia's traditional dishes is a feast for the senses. But also so much more - a festival of this ancient nation's remarkable heritage. The culinary traditions we celebrate in Tunisia today are the flowering of a mature culture that has flourished and deepened over centuries. It explores the many levels at which diet contributes to the community. From the Phoenician sailors who brought the olive tree and the Spanish explorers returning with tomatoes from the New World, to traders who introduced the herbs and spices from the Middle East so valued by ancient physicians for their health-giving properties, Tunisia has always been a melting pot of societies and food traditions.

 Review
"Hafida, our eminently qualified guide, brings her intimate knowledge of local recipes passed down from one generation to the next - a eulogy to healthy cuisine and the Tunisian way of life. Delicate flavours of garden vegetables contrast with pungent seasoning, in harmony with the ubiquitous regional extra virgin olive oil from ancient cultivars that are now the subject of contemporary research, revealing profound benefits for health at the heart of the Mediterranean diet." Dr Simon Poole --Foreword