Saint Stephen’s Cafe’s cook and manager, Edna Yeffet Summerell, has created healing Ayurvedic combinations, and intricate middle eastern dishes. She is also one of Bristol’s finest hummus producers. Edna wants you to know:
Ten things about hummus
1) Said to be a 5000 year-old dish, hummus is the one thing you find everywhere in the Middle East…and where there’s hummus, there’s rivalry. Everyone claims their hummus was the first and is the best.
2) The truth is no one knows where hummus originated.
3) Hummus is the Arab word for chickpeas.
4) The chickpeas have a shape of the heart. Hummus is a dish that nurtures hearts.
5) In order to produce good hummus, you must make it with love.
6) Hummus is food that unites and harmonises – everyone loves it. Make it with chickpeas from Turkey or Syria, olive oil from Palestine, lemons from Israel, tahini from Lebanon, garlic from Egypt…make hummus and not war!
7) Hummus brings a vision of hope and peace. Israelis joke that the real desire to have peace in the Middle East is to eat hummus in Damascus, Beirut and Ramallah…it’s a dream…
Hummus holds a vision of the joy of sharing and unity with all nations. It is food from heaven that belongs to all of mankind. It makes us feel good.
9) Research shows why hummus is the feel-good food. Chickpeas contains tryptophan, the amino acid needed to make seratonin, a hormone linked to mood-balancing and restful sleep. No wonder hummus is called Nature’s prozac.
10) The growing popularity of the hummus feel-good factor is demonstrated by its increasing global spread, from the Middle East, to the UK, to Bristol an now….at Saint Stephen’s Cafe.
Eat hummus – give chickpeas a chance!
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mmmmmmm………yum give peas a chance, indeed!