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Hummus is a very popular food in Israel that can be eaten with both meat and dairy meals, which is significant given Jewish dietary laws. It is made from chickpeas, tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic. Hummus is commonly found in restaurants, supermarkets, and dedicated hummus shops in Israel. It is also a staple food in Palestinian and Jordanian cuisine, where it is often eaten warm for breakfast, lunch or dinner and topped with olive oil, mint, paprika or parsley. Hummus is also considered a classic Syrian dish that is commonly consumed by Syrian communities abroad.

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Humms

Hummus is a very popular food in Israel that can be eaten with both meat and dairy meals, which is significant given Jewish dietary laws. It is made from chickpeas, tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic. Hummus is commonly found in restaurants, supermarkets, and dedicated hummus shops in Israel. It is also a staple food in Palestinian and Jordanian cuisine, where it is often eaten warm for breakfast, lunch or dinner and topped with olive oil, mint, paprika or parsley. Hummus is also considered a classic Syrian dish that is commonly consumed by Syrian communities abroad.

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Hummus is a common part of everyday meals in Israel.

[17] A significant reason for the popularity of


hummus in Israel is that it is made from ingredients that, following Kashrut (Jewish dietary laws), can
be combined with both meat and dairy meals. Few other foods can be combined with a wide variety
of meals consistently with the Trabzon, Enez, Foa, eme, Bodrum, Alanya, Mersin, Iskenderun,
etc., where the colonies of Genoese and Venetian merchants existed) in present-day Turkey.

The majority are either the descendants of traders from the maritime
republics of Venice, Genoa, Pisa, Ancona and Ragusa who had colonies in the East Mediterranean
coast; or the descendants of the French/Italian Levantines who lived in the Crusader states of the
Levant (in present-day Lebanon, Israel and Syria), especially in port towns such
as Beirut, Tripoli, Tyre, Byblos, Acre, Jaffa, Latakia, etc.; or in major cities near the coast, such
as Tarsus, Antioch, Jerusalem, etc. Others may be converts to Roman Catholicism, immigrants from
Anglo-French colonization, or Eastern Christians who had residversions available is hummus
masabacha, made with lemon-spiked tahini garnished with whole chick peas, a sprinkling
of paprika and a drizzle of olive oil.[20] Hummus is sold in restaurants, supermarkets and hummus-
only shops (known in Hebrew as humusiot).[21]

For Palestinians and Jordanians, hummus has long been a staple food, often served warm, with
bread for breakfast, lunch or dinner.[22] All of the ingredients in hummus are easily found in
Palestinian gardens, farms and markets, thus adding to the availability and popularity of the dish.
In Palestinian areas, hummus is usually garnished, with olive oil, "nana" mint leaves, paprika,
parsley or cumin.[23] A related dish popular in the region of Palestine and Jordan is laban ma'
hummus ("yogurt and chickpeas"), which uses yogurt in the place of tahini and butter in the place of
olive oil and is topped with pieces of toasted bread. [22]

One author calls hummus, "One of the most popular and best-known of all Syrian dishes" and a
"must on any mezzeh table."[24] Syrians in Canada's Arab diaspora prepare and consume hummus
along with other dishes like falafel, kibbe and tabouleh, even among the third- and fourth-generation
offspring of the original immigrants.[25]

In Cyprus, hummus is part of the local cuisine in both Turkish Cypriot and Greek
Cypriot communities where it is called "humoi" (Greek: ).[26][27] In Turkey, hummus is considered
as a meze and usu

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