Rising Stars: Meet Areej Matooq of Manama

Today we’d like to introduce you to Areej Matooq. Them and their team share their story with us below:

Areej Matooq holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in media and has held media positions since graduation, but her passion for cooking started early since childhood. Areej developed her cooking skills over the years she studied her bachelor’s in Kuwait. She enters her kitchen every day and cooks her heart out by creating new dishes and share it with family and friends.

She decided to enhance her cooking skills by enrolling at le cordon bleu college of culinary arts in London where she studied and exercised the French cuisine.

Areej is keen to attend cooking classes in every country she visits to learn more about the culture of food of each country.

She applies all the cooking skills she learns in creating healthy recipes to promote healthy eating by holding many healthy cooking classes for adults and kids, sharing her healthy and creative recipes through social media.

To understand Health and nutrition more, Areej studied advanced diploma in nutrition from the Future Fit Academy in UK and got many certificates for healthy food cooking.

She is the founder of (fermendiet) Bahraini factory for fermented food, which was launched in March 2022.

I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
Wasn’t that difficult, challenges were acceptable level. I enjoyed facing these challenges and working toward overcoming them. The reason is there is general acceptance from the crowd toward thinking of changing to a healthy lifestyle. And to encourage them more, I always try to provide healthy swaps to the traditional dishes that people in my region like.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
Chef, healthy lifestyle influence, recipe developer. Founder and owner of Feremendiet for fermented food, which is the first local factory for fermented food in Bahrain.

What sort of changes are you expecting over the next 5-10 years?
I expect huge growth to the healthy lifestyle industry as they are abundant of knowledge sources which educate people. Hopefully, our factory grow and can supply fermented food to the whole region not only my county Bahrain.

Contact Info:

• Website: fermendiet.invopos.app
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areejinkitchen/?hl=en
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVoemTJRqmGqkxSnVtTeIIA