SC - Hummus

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"ana l. valdes" wrote:
> 
> Sorry to disagree with you. My sources are "Classic Turkish Cooking", by
> Ghillie Basan and "Classical Turkish Cooking", by Ayla Algar. They have
> recipes for hummus and other chickpeas dishes, as manti and leblebi.
> Grretings
> Ana L. Valdés

I believe the point was that there seems to be no proof these dishes
existed prior to the seventeenth century, the "period" the SCA
concentrates on. There's no denying that hummus is a classic dish, but
then I had a classic dish yesterday (real Buffalo chicken wings)
documented as having been invented 20 years ago. We know when, where,
and by whom. We don't seem to know that about hummus, except it doesn't
seem to appear in any documents dating from the time period we're
discussing. At least, we haven't found any references to it in any of
the several Arabic (both Middle Eastern, North African, and Andalusian)
texts available from the pre-17th centuries.

Now, it's possible Ghillie Basan and Ayla Algar did find recipes for
hummus in medieval sources, but it's a bit of a surprise, if they did,
since many of us have been looking for years. By any chance is there any
bibliographical information on where to find such documents, or do they
simply say something like, "this is an old classic dish"?

By the way, we have run across a couple of chick-pea puree dishes, just
not one made with sesame paste, etc., as hummus tends to be made today,
and the name "hummus" isn't used.

I hope this helps clear things up a bit.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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