" ¢Â While love may be the international spoken language , the international erotic love is the chickpea , or the Bengal gram ( India ) , Chickpea ( English ) , Garbanzo ( Latin America ) , Hommes , Hamaz ( Arab world ) , Nohud , Lablabi ( Turkey ) , and Shimbra ( Ethiopia ) , as its sometimes known .
" ¢Â Chickpeas are a high - protein leguminous plant , as well as providers of slow burn complex carbohydrate . They can also replenish your iron stores , promote energy production , and do as an antioxidant . Of naturally , the properties of the Cicer arietinum and therefore hummus have been live for quite some fourth dimension - in 400 BC , Plato and Socrates wrote about the welfare of hummus in their diets .
" ¢ Hummus is often merge with tahini , olive oil , lemon succus , salinity and garlic , though sometimes yogurt and butter is substituted . In ancient Rome , acetum was sometimes used in the billet of lemon juice ( lemons may have been known to Romans at the time as merely an expensive and rarified significance ) .
" ¢Â When Sacha Baron Cohen asBruno jokedwith Israel ’s Yossi Alpher and Palestine ’s Ghassam Khalib about " hummus " versus " Hamas , " he might not have have a go at it that , unluckily , aHummus Warin the region was soon to come , where " Lebanese businessmen are make a legal claim that would designate hummus as traditional to Lebanon . " The move was to make it illegal for other countries to market hummus as their own . As one depreciator say , " hummus belong to to all who love it ! "
" ¢ As with most Dietribes , there have to be record for the biggest , fast and impregnable of all solid food featured . Hummus is no unlike , and actually has more records than most ! To brainpower : Largest scale of hummusworld record ( determine by Isreal ): 4,090 kg ( 9,016lbs ? ? Is that right?)Largest pita(won by Greece ): 110.2lbsLongest pita(set by Qatar ): 421 ft 6 inIs anyone else athirst ?
" ¢Â Need a curative for the winter doldrums ? It seems that hummus might be the answer . A late study has shown chickpeas to have a connection to Prozac and otherantidepressants , given its high levels of Tryptophan ( yes , also see in your Thanksgiving joker ) , which helps enkindle serotonin levels .
" ¢Â Though you may make your own hummus , take a peak inside ahummus factoryto see how your local grocer probably procures their Mediterranean mixture .
" ¢ Flossers , do you buy your hommos pre - made , or make your own ? I ’ve done both , but my lack of skills make the storage - bought variety a much better choice !
" ˜Dietribes ' seem every other Wednesday . Food photos taken byJohanna Beyenbach . You might remember that name from our C. W. Post about hercolorful diet .
