At mealtime Boaz said to her, "Come here and have some food; dip your bread in the sauce." 2:14. The sauce is thought to be hummus). In any case, there is an old traditional sweet hummus dish popular with European Jews (quite delish, I tell you!) and if I find my old recipe book I'll be glad to share. Also Ashkenazi Jews serve hummus salad as a festive dish on the first Shabbat after a wedding. Lentils were also very popular in Eastern Europe.

not the Shabbat after a wedding, the Shabbat after a brith. sorry.

So now Hummus is Isreali....i think i have heard it all now

eeww ! This muck looks absolutely revolting ! I wouldn't feed it to my cats !!

Cevirme means "rotating" in Turkish. So sorry to deflate your myth. Oh, and the name 'Palestine' is another name the Arabs stole, because there is no letter 'P' in Arabic.

It is so infuriating to see It is infuriating to see Israelis so pompous as to claim that Hummus is Israeli brand just like Jaffa,Lod,Ramlah,Safad,Haifa etc..etc,were always Israeli! What a shame!

It's simply delicious. You say you wouldn't feed it to your cats. Well, my cat has a thing for plain boiled chickpeas. I've not offered him any hummous because of the salt etc but believe me if he could, he would.

To Khalid and all those that are confused. First of all forget your prejudices, food and taste is human and is not exclusive, on the contrary it is inclusive. Israelies acknowledge that excellent hoummus is prepared by Arab chefs and any contribution to culture is readily acknowledge within Israeli culture, that makes the diference with fanaticism. Most Israelis are Middle Eastern, contrary to the missperception that the Israeli people are mostly "European." The fallacies perpetuated against Zionism, Israelies and Jews do not serve any human objectivity on the contrary it incites hate and war. Any decent Israeli (the majority) respects Arab culture, history and traditions regardless of the conflict. You should realize that Israel doesn't eclude its Arab citizens, if you are truthful you could see that the article is correct and expresses an aspect of Israeli reality. Anyway Bon Apetit, we are fortunate to have creative cooks that delight us sharing their creativity. Have a wonderful day.

In keeping with kosher traditions, because it's neither dairy nor meat, humus is a mayo substitute used with fries, in sandwiches, and for a dip for meat dishes. It is also very healthy. The best humus in the world outside of the Middle East can be found in Brent Street in Hendon, London.

mainly it is cheape .so it is eaten in jordan and insyria ,lebanon and also in palastin /but in israil it is becouse it is fantastic .. so in resturant of 5 stars .. it is a dish with the other dishes from the meat and chickens ..as a salad or one of many salads ... but in the camps and in poor erea .. it is the main dish in the morning and may be the only dish in the dinner /// in egypt it is not the hummus .. it is the fool // another bean than hummus .. and also the falafel in egypt is done from the fool ... they do it with the oil .. so it is fool with the oil /or fool with the tomato .fool with the eggs ,fool with the butter /fool with minsed meat .fool with the basterma .. and may be fool with the soos // the soos is the small insects or worms presented in the fool

Ali Baba was smarter than that. ONLY CAVIAR!!!! :-)))

...and ham is anti-semitic !!! :-))))

Firstly Hummus is Lebanese and not Israely .. and the best Hommos in the WORL is LEBANESE .. so get over all this bullshit ur feeding urself .. Second Mesabha does not come from Morning .. or Soboh it comes from Sibaha which means swimming as the Peas are Swimming in the Tahineh Sauce ... Just picked this to show u one of your too many mistakes ... And the other guy is right about boarders and all that .. but he forgot to mention that those Jews were Arab Jews and there was nothing called Israel state .. most of Israelies are just as said before russians and french and americans and other unpatriot people who fail in their own countries so they decide to leave to get a new chance in life and soon discover that they made a mistake by moving to israel and go back home ..

By the way, so much of so-called "Arab" cuisine is actually Greek/Turkish originally. Do we hear the Greeks or Turks engaging in infantile antics over the "appropriation" of their cultural and culinary heritage by the Arabs? Jews have lived in the Middle-east for thousands of years, not just Europe. Jews have contributed immensely to the development and refinement of middle-eastern classical music, cuisine, literature and in all aspects. We eat falafels, shwarma, 'anba, kofteh, timman bajilla, malawich, kabab, samak, HUMMUS, sahlab, Kunafa..etc whether you like it or not. Its as much Jewish as it is Arab or middle-eastern. What is this takhalluf?

My Palestinian friend and I went to a reform synagogue on a friday night in a desert town north of Los Angeles to leaflet the local jewish folks about a newly-opened Mediterranean restaurant. An old couple arrived at the the dark empty parking lot first as we intorduced ourselves. When the husband found out that one of us is a Palestinian, he asked: "Now, you are not with Hamas, are you?" My friend said: "No, but I am with Hummus!" as he gave the man a copy of the promotional flyer. We both laughed. That's how my Palestinaian friend and I (an Iranian Jew) became "members" of Hummus.

There is always a container of the stuff in our refrigerator. Can't live without it !

True Jewdaism was there when Christianity arrived , they both had to give ground to the latest arrival Islam which used the existing traditions to conquer. The last wife of the Prophet was the daughter off the head of a famous tribe defeted by the followers of the then modern religion. When the usual sacking strated she asked to see the Prophet who charmet by her looks and courage decided to espouse thus saving the tribe and its fortunes. It is said the head of that tribe converted and became one of the most fanatical supporters of the new religion. Apparently the staple food was something similar to Hommoss which in those days arrived from difference corners of the Middle East including yemen and Persia. It is indeed in Lebanon and Palestine that Hommoss was used at its best until it evolved in to the excellent dish it is known to be nowadays and is served in various forms dressed with garlic and olive oil accompanies with ful, green onions, the whole eaten with any possible bread available which serves as filler.

Lately we've been adding in sun dried tomatos and kalamata olives. Weave a few through along with pine nuts and drizzled olive oil plus parsley. It's very, very good. Pita is essential.

is lox and bagels, gefilte fish, and matzoh ball soup.

musabaha has nothing to do with sabah(morning) it comes from the word (sabaha) or swam as the checkpeas swim in hummos.Mind ur tranaslation please.

Who cares where it was invented! We all agree it is yummy.

Humus does more to bring together Israeli Jews and Arabs then anything else I can think of. Many Israeli Jews believe the more Arab, the more authentic, the better humus. (Personally, I agree-though it's a slight challenge to find Arab restaurants that are kosher.) Even factory made humus is often named for Arab villages. I doubt there an Israeli too right-wing to eat or serve Humus. All the talkbackers who have been complaining about Israeli society; take the Jewish love of humus as a compliment and something positive, not some sort of cultural appropriation. Americans didn't create hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza etc. but perfected them and consider them their national food.

I dont know if you made a typo when u spelled it (Mesdames) or if the ppl in Lebanon use that word for it..I'll give it to u from jerusalem: "Imdem'mas"(the spelling): -Im*dem*mas (how to read it): About the "foul" part: yes it does mean something else in english, but its about the closest transliteration to the arabic word you can get...for example if per say u read It "fol"or "ful" to the waiter, chances are they arent going to get u. *you need the "ou" (read as the "ul" as in the english word rule). hope this helps

i think what they meant was arab anyway beacause the fact is clear in history and not palestinian. the only reason why they are saying palestinian is probably beacuse hummus wasnt marketed untill Israelis i guess marketed it---which was after the state of israel was established on stolen palestinian land----meaning palestinians were there before israelis and about the "p" not being in the arabic alphabet-i see your used to the the english word. the correct word to be used, and should be used is "Falasteen". which was used back then and now a days by arabs.

The concept of a "Palestinian" to describe the local residents of the holy land has been invented; neither was there ever in history a "Palestinian Arab" nation. The Arabic word Filastin has been used to refer to the region since the earliest medieval Arab geographers adopted and derived from the Latinized Greek term Palaestina (Παλαιστίνη, since the Arabs do not have the letter ''P'' in their language and Palaestina is a foreign word they had to change it that Arab speakers could pronounce it correctly. It's funny, so called Arab ''Palestinians'' they can't even pronounce the(as they claim) word of their nation correctly. AD 135, after putting down the Bar Kochba revolt, the second major Jewish revolt against Rome, the Emperor Hadrian wanted to blot out the name of the Roman "Provincia Judaea" and so renamed it "Provincia Syria Palaestina", the Latin version of the Greek name. It is from the term "Philistines" that the name "Palestinians" has been taken. Actually, the ancient Philistines and modern Palestinians have something in common: both are invaders from other lands! That is precisely the meaning of their name, that is not an ethnic denomination but an adjective applied to them: Peleshet, from the verb "pelesh", "dividers", "penetrators" or "invaders". The Philistines were a confederation of non-Semitic peoples coming from Crete, the Aegean Islands and Asia Minor, also known as "Sea Peoples". The main tribes were Tzekelesh, Shardana, Akhaiusha, Danauna, Tzakara, Masa or Meshwesh, Lukki, Dardana, Tursha, Keshesh or Karkisha, Labu and Irven. The original homeland of the group that ruled the Philistine federation, namely the "Pelesati", was the island of Crete

Ful Medames is a great Egyptian dish, usually eaten for breakfast. See a good article and pronunciation in Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ful_medames

nice article .. :) but the pita part is wrong .. pita isnt a 20th century invention . the word might be but the same exact bread was made for along time actualy.. and the ancestor for pita is tannoor bread witch is even older than pita and the actual bread is thicker. 10x

someone said that hummus is Semitic . well yeah since it is as old as our civilization. one of the earliest processed foods . and it spread between the Semitic people quite fast. Semitic people are Canaanites , Assyrians , Phoenicians ( same as Canaanites ) Hebrews ... the whole lot of the Levant. Arabic is a s emetic language but not all Arabs are Semitic by race . Lebanese , some Syrian Palestinian and some Jordanian and Iraqi are Semitic . same ar the Israeli .and they all created hummus .. our gold we give i to the world .

this is exactly what i was going to say. no israeli will deny that hummus is arab food. but no israeli will deny their love for this culinary delight.