Five-course dinner to feature flavors of Tunisia, Jan. 29

Discover the flavors of Tunisia with a five-course dinner featuring author Judy Hallet at the Fourth Estate restaurant on Wednesday, Jan. 29.

Hallet, who first experienced Tunisian food as a Peace Corps volunteer, returned to the country 50 years later with her husband, Stanley, an architecture professor who had a project at a university in Tunis, the capital. Hallet worked with the university president's wife Raoudha Guellali Ben Taarit and the family's chef, Hasna Trabelsi, to collect and adapt recipes for an English-language cookbook, "Discovering Tunisian Cuisine." 

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Tickets cost $95 per person or $180 per couple, including one copy of the book. National Press Club members are eligible for a 15% discount on tickets with discount code. To use the discount code, you must be logged in to the Club website.

The dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. with passed hors d'oeuvres. The seated meal begins at 7 p.m. All courses will be paired with an appropriate wine, cocktail or tea. The full menu is listed below: 

Hors d’oeuvres

• [Mechouïa] Blankit | Grilled vegetable canapés
• Slata Tounsya | Tunisian salad, tuna fish and eggs
• Swabâa Fatma | Fatma's fingers, potatoes, chicken and cheese
• Tagine Sebnakh | Spinach Tagine with lamb

Soup

Broudou | Vegetable soup with marrow bone

Second Course

Brik à l'Oeuf | Pastry with shrimp, parsley and egg

Intermezzo

Locally-made sorbet

Entrée

Couscous bel Hout | Red Snapper couscous with chickpeas, butternut squash and Anaheim peppers

Dessert

Samsa | Crushed nut filled pastry, dates and fresh fruit

Accompanied by mint tea