Cooking against the tide in Tunisia | Najet Werda | My Tunisia 🇹🇳
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- In Kerkennah, an island off the Tunisian coast, you can allegedly get the best couscous and octopus in the world - and the place to get it is Najet's restaurant.
Najet Werda came to Kerkennah as a young girl and fell in love with the picturesque island's low-key profile. She always dreamed about returning to the island, but little did she know that she would settle here and realise her dream with her husband, Fadhel.
"In 1989 when I first came to Kerkennah, it was love at first sight", says Najet. I wanted to find something to do so I could stay here.... As a person who loves cooking, I thought, why not? Everyone loves the sea and food... things from the sea are beautiful and fresh."
Culinary passion mixed with Arab hospitality led her to open her restaurant, Le Regal.
"I'm not like restaurants who do big quantities. Just a few things so it remains fresh and immediate," says Najet, who takes advantage of weekly market runs in the islands' capital, Erramla, for fresh produce.
While her menu offers a wide array of seafood dishes, octopus couscous is king at Najet's restaurant.
"This couscous that we prepare with octopus is a speciality of Kerkennah. People love my octopus couscous. They have to order it in advance to eat it later."
Najet's customers can bring their own fish from the harbour and cook it themselves at the restaurant with the help of her team. Her long-time friend Sami Melliti, who is also a fisherman, keeps the diners entertained once they arrive.
He takes visitors on fishing tours and shares his knowledge of ancient fishing methods that date back to the Phoenicians.
"There's a lot of local knowledge about our sea," says Sami Melliti. "If you don't know it you can't be a fisherman."
However, climate change is threatening the livelihoods of Tunisia's fishermen.
"I used to make a good income. But after a while, fishing livelihood became thinner...the sea with time is getting worse... because of trawlers, because of our fishing methods using plastic fish-traps," laments Sami. "It causes sea pollution. The state signs contracts with oil companies that want to operate in the sea. They pollute the sea, too."
Najet echoes the uneasy sentiments fishermen have about decreasing fish supply.
"In the past when we'd see people fishing like this we'd see the mullets jumping, sheets of them. People were yelling and having fun. It used to be fun. Now it hurts my heart to see these men [fishermen]. They did the first round and a second round and got four or eight fish."
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ما اجملها تونس وعبادها وكامل العالم الاسلامي اني فرنسية مسلمة الحمدالله زوجي تونسي واحب تونس وبنزرت .
Vous êtes toujours la bienvenue 🤗
الحمد الله الذي هداك للإسلام أختنا ربي يرزقك الجنة انت وزوجك وجميع المسلمين
I'm a brazilian and I'm falling in love with Tunisia by watching this series. I hope to visit there someday soon.
more than welcome :)
BECAREFUL MY FRIEND! don't jump in the SEA while you are living in a pond!
diegomineiro you should go to Israel it is much better than Tunisia
Oh YES ISRAEL is much smaller and guess what....go there and experience it!!!!
Lol I really want to visit Brasil tho
i love the fact that the lady does not want to leave the island,dont blame her I would love to be there
She is a force of nature. Don't get in her way. I love her. Wish I could go there and eat.
I wish I could get to know her better! She's a great role model! I loved this documentary!
a lot of respect to her and her Tunisia!
salute such women 🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🇵🇰🇹🇳🇵🇰🇹🇳🇵🇰❤❤
She enjoys really what she doing in her life. Hope she gonna more famous in her preparations
Kerkanah is my dream to go ...I love all Tunisia as is my second country 😍😍😍
Alhamdulillah! Such a lovely woman. I wish her all the best!
12:29 this woman represents me 😂 cannot wait when I smell the good food of my mother.. Food made with love and passion is the best food
She wanted to be a famous chef and now she is one.
I love this woman and I want to eat at her restaurant. This would be added on my bucketlist
this woman is awesome and has a great sense of humor god bless her and bless those who work with her🍓🍓🍓🍓
You will have two customers coming from the U.S very shortly.
Thank u.. Both.. U re so welcome in our country..
Most than welcome ❤️❤️ you will never regret it
enjoy the good food culture people and nice sites
Beautiful.
This looks incredible
I love hard working people
TUNISIANS ARE NOT HARD WORKING......WATCH THE WASTE OF TIME AT COFFEE SHOPS DAY OR NIGHT!!!
Only loosers waste time on coffee shops and getting cofee and cigarettes with the money their mothers gave them, those mothers are the hard working ones, so please respect Tunisian hard working people
Habibty Najet you Rock my sista! Would love to try your food.. Looks so delicious Ma Shaa Allaah.. Respect
Hope to visit this area at least once in lifetime!!!
She rules !
Inchallah je viens manger dans ton restaurant ! Je suis tunisien au Canada.. -20° twahacht tounes ou mekletna 😍 raby mrakom
Bravo Najet 👍 tu es un modèle de patriotisme et de l'amour du travail bien fait 👍
kerkennah is life
Wow !
j ai visiter najet tend de fois il represente l ile de kerkennah elle a un beau restaurant de lux propre mème les clients de l europe il sont aimais beaucoup
Just pure respect...very nice video.
من احب الفيديوهات الى قلبي برافو مدام نجاة و ربي يحفظ بلادنا تونس و الامة الاسلامية
Ma'sha'Allah Tabaraka'Allah!
what is the price for the octopus cus cus dish.the whole big plate
Less than 35$
5 dollars for one person 'dish
Perfeito 🎉
Yes so you should stop fishing for few years let the sea replenish I'm sure the tourists will understand & will respect you for that
I suggest you to rewind the video and listen carefully to what has been said.
These people has been fishing this way in centuries for their own needs. People of Kerkennah survive thanks to the sea. Always did. unfortunally there are not so many other options. No industry and no tourism.
What changed and contributed to the lack of fish are the trawlers, the pollution provoked by the oil industry and the ghost fish nets lost by fishermen around the mediterranean sea that happens to show up on the shores of Kerkennah.
Vous êtes pas tunisienne pour quoi vous mêlé dans nos affaires vous êtes étrangères occupé de votre pays les tunisien on comprend pas l'anglais OK
🇹🇳🤙🇹🇳💗🇹🇳🤙🇹🇳💗🇹🇳🤙💗اه يا بلادي توحشتك ربي يحفظك يا
Kerkennah is a poor island.. They need some mega investments in Tourism like in Djerba
Your mother is poorer
No thanks
Beutifull ❤
That lady is a g. Lol.
💜💜💜🌍💌
Muito bom
aljazeera , best sponsor out there hhh 😂😂😂
I would like to visit to Tunisia and fall in love with girls
Muito fixe
Is octopus permissible to eat??
Absolutely
7:10 she"s a gangsta xDD 7OOOOOOTTTTT XD
Hi
j'ai tous aime sauf sa facon de parler envers sa marie
Sa hhhh
You could of put the poor octopus to sleep first so cruel
go to sleep
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