From Carthage to Kairouan - A Celebration of the Red Cuisine of Tunisia

220x280mm, 192 pages, Hardback
ISBN: 978-1-914325-08-3
Price: £25.00

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Now available in bookshops across Tunisia, and online via our distribution partners, Cérès, here. Launch events to be held at the British Embassy in Carthage, the Amicale de l'ENA, Kairouan and ElKitab. Or from Nomad Publishing as below:

The Tunisia Cookbook

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The Tunisia Cookbook
A Celebration of the Healthy Red Cuisine of Tunisia
Hafida Ben Rejeb Latta
with a Foreword by Dr Simon Poole

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.

The cuisine of Tunisia is perhaps one of the greatest undiscovered treasures of the Mediterranean. It reflects the country’s proud heritage, embracing and assimilating the exotic foods and tastes of other cultures.
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.
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.
from the foreword by
Dr Simon Poole

About the Author
Hafida Ben Rejeb Latta was born in Kairouan in 1944 and was brought up in the house of her grandfather, the late writer and poet Salah Souissi el Quayrawani.
   After graduating from l’Ecole Nationale d’Administration in Tunis she worked as secretary to the then Minister of Culture and Information si Chedli Klibi and taught Arabic to Peace Corps volunteers.
   She went on to marry a British diplomat and left Tunisia to live and teach in Pakistan, Lebanon, Jordan, the UAE and many other countries from her English base.
In Jordan she raised funds for the Mental Health Society and built and equip a Day Centre in the Bakaa Camp in 1986-7. She also raised funds and launched the establishment of the College of Occupational Therapy with General Union of Voluntary Society and the Al Hussein Society for the Physically Handicapped. In 1990 the College won the UNESCO regional Award for the best small project of the year.
   She has two sons: a British diplomat and an oil journalist. Hafida also completed a Master’s degree in education from London University. A well travelled life is described in her autobiography: A Daughter of Kairouan, published in English in 2017.