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- Ok, we are ok, please silence. Action.

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- If I had to transmit one single thing, if I was on the other side of the planet and I had nothing left to eat, the only thing I would take with me is semolina,

- a piece of pancake and even some olives.

- As far as I can remember, I can still see my grandmother making it so fast and the size, I was amazed,

- you saw the one I made yesterday, it was tiny, and she managed making some, not as big as this tray but in those dimensions without breaking it,

- to turn it over into one piece and to make several of them, I only made one yesterday,

- as one must feed one’s grandchildren coming during the school holidays.

- I was always mesmerized to see with which dexterity, very fast, how she managed kneading it, how she managed baking it without breaking it, when it is not that easy.

- And true to say that the tradition lasts, with my aunt, my cousins, well, we manage making some but on a less regular basis, and maybe smaller.

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- My grandmother was called Fatma. Mom’s name was Nejma, my aunt’s name is Tounès but we call Aunty Kouka.

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- My aunt on my father’s side is called aunty Schmir, I have several: aunty Hadda, aunty Hbila, and now my daughter.

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- I happened to have a daughter called Inès. What means in Berber “carry words”.

- Well, that’s a heavy burden, to intend to transmit this knowledge. At least I try to transmit it to her as best as I can.

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- One thing that fascinates me, I told you, is the names of the cakes.

- I never managed knowing why a makoun is called a makoun, a baklava a baklava and so on.

- And I didn’t get the answer, but I keep on searching.

- One gives names ans sometimes one keeps...

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- We do not think so many people are needed for a report.

- It is like people that come for a meal and think that only two people are needed for everything, the bread, the sweet...

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- Mina is a Berber from Algeria. She was born and grew up in Algiers.

- She arrived in Marseille to go to college, she was granted chemistry PhD.

- High level swimmer, a scientist, a business woman, Mina’s path has been shaped by challenges and encounters.

- She opened a restaurant in Marseille after her daughter was born, the “Mina Kouk”.

- She proposes dishes very little known typically Berber, to which she brings her modernity and her refinement.

- She dedicates this film to her Mom, who remains her great source of inspiration.

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