The 1st Edition of the Arab Cooking Days will be organized on February 1-2 at the City of Culture in Tunis, at the initiative of the Tunisian Federation of Tourist Restaurants (FTRT).

The event, which will see the participation of the embassies of Arab countries, aims to promote Tunisian and Arab gastronomy and to contribute to enhancing the local culinary heritage, seen as a lever of tourist attractiveness," FTRT said in a press release on Wednesday, December 21, 2022.

Organized under the umbrella of the Tourism Ministry in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Tunisians Abroad and the Ministry of Culture, this event will include a symposium on the theme: "The Arab Culinary Heritage: Wealth and Diversity at the Service of Inter-Arab Tourism.”

During these days, the FTRT will propose the creation of the Arab Union of Tourist Restaurants and Culinary Heritage Preservation and of a training academy dedicated to culinary arts.