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Arbis: the ultimate chickpea snack

March 14, 2007 // 18 Comments

Arbes is so simple to make, and so tasty, that after you know the recipe you might find yourself eating it all the time. It also has an interesting story. Arbes (or [...]

Hummus, Tahini and Panic

March 10, 2007 // 2 Comments

Two weeks ago, a series of packaged Hummus products were recalled from supermarkets all over the UK. A routine check found them to be contaminated with salmonella. No [...]

The Emerging Hummus Market in the US

March 5, 2007 // 3 Comments

American household are embracing the hummus. The packaged hummus products now sell 30 times what they did a decade ago. 10 year ago, most Americans didn’t know what [...]

Hummus instead of Prozac

March 3, 2007 // 21 Comments

A recent research conducted by Israeli scientists, leads to the conclusion that the chickpea was cultivation because of it’s special effect on mood. In a way, [...]

A Hummus to die for

February 20, 2007 // 1 Comment

How did Salmonella germs got into the Icelandic Hummus from M&S? Salmonella germs found last Wednesday in two Hummus products, led to a bit of a Hummus-panic across the [...]

Hummus in the Bible

October 10, 2006 // 12 Comments

A theory, widely attributed to Meir Shalev (as Dr. Dafna Hirsh had commented, the writer and journalist Menahem Kapeliuk thought of it first), claims that hummus was first [...]
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