These folios from the tunisian gastronomic heritage, paying tribute to the olive tree, offer major recipes, both varied and delicious which make all the fragrances of the olives and the olive oil sing in the kitchen. And, because a lover of home-grown products who does not know anything about the ingredients used in the recipes may be compared to the owner of a fabulous library who cannot read, our recipes are interspersed with a gentle mixture of the olive tree history and botany, information on the picking method of the olives and the extraction of this culinary wonder which is olive oil.