“Yasmina Salam” book within the final of the world cooking awards

The book “The Couscous, the roots and colors of Algeria” by Algerian writer Yasmina Salam, the final stage of the world “Gormon World” competition for the twelve months 2025, is one among potentially the most prominent world awards for cooking literature, celebrating the accurate cooking books from all around the arena.

On Thursday, a meeting with the writer on the Culture Palace Moufdi Zakaria became organized in Algiers, within the presence of the Minister of Culture and Arts Zuhair Ballow, via which it make clear this writer, which became issued by the National Dialog Company, Publishing and Marketing (Anab) in 2024.

Yasmina Salam explained that her book is competing within the category of “Culture Culture” alongside completely different books from several nations, together with Turkey and Portugal, noting that the announcement of the of the competition will be on June 19 in Portugal.

She added that this participation is the 2d for her within the competition, after her victory“Gormon” Award in 2023 On its first writer, “The Memory of Cooking in Algeria: Historical past of Recipes” issued in 2022.

The author emphasized that the couscous represents the point of curiosity of its book, because it’s a deep symbol of the Algerian cultural id, and a outdated class rooted in national historic past since dilapidated conditions.

The book reports the historic roots of the couscous, its origins, its more than one kinds, and its ingredients, as successfully as highlighting the systems of its destiny, and potentially the most famed recipes for its preparation in diverse areas of Algeria. The author also indicated that the couscous became incorporated in 2020 as phase of the representative checklist of the limitless cultural heritage of humanity by UNESCO, within the name of Algeria and three completely different Maghreb nations.