Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Hummus Catches On in America (as Long as It’s Flavored)
“BACK home, they would shoot me in the head for doing this to hummus,” Majdi Wadi said as he waited to board a flight to Los Angeles, where he would meet with Costco executives to pitch his company’s roster of 14 flavored hummus varieties, including artichoke-garlic and spinach...Read More!
From the NY Times
From the NY Times
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Here We Go Again...
BEIRUT (AFP) – Lebanon on Saturday claimed another victory in the continuing battle with Israel over which country can make the largest plate of the chickpea delicacy hummus -- with a 10-tonne broadside.
More than 300 chefs set the new record for hummus, which the Lebanese say is their national dish despite Israeli claims, in the presence of a Guinness World Records representative who confirmed its weight at 10,452 kilograms.
That'd last me a week...read the rest at yahoo news...http://news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
From Israel to the N.B.A., Missing the Hummus
From the NY TIMES:
Omri Casspi on Hummus in the US:
“Man, I tried it; that’s all I can say,” he said last week during a break in the Kings’ summer league schedule. “I will bring some from Israel, maybe. I’ll let you taste it and you tell me.”
Omri Casspi on Hummus in the US:
“Man, I tried it; that’s all I can say,” he said last week during a break in the Kings’ summer league schedule. “I will bring some from Israel, maybe. I’ll let you taste it and you tell me.”
Friday, January 8, 2010
And Isreal's Back on Top
JERUSALEM — Israel has taken the upper hand in a new kind of Mideast conflict, one in which bullets are replaced by chickpeas. Using a satellite dish on loan from a nearby broadcast station, cooks in an Arab town near Jerusalem whipped up more than four metric tons of hummus...Hundreds of jubilant Israelis, a mix of Arabs and Jews, gathered around the giant dish in the town of Abu Ghosh near Jerusalem on Friday, many of them dancing as a singer performed an Arabic love song to the beige chickpea paste.
Complete Story HERE!
Complete Story HERE!
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Peak Hummus is Imminent!!
As you can see in the graph, the term humus shows a steady and significant growth from 2007 to 2009. The growth in search traffic for the term hummus is even stronger. From The Humus Blog.
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